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Yemen: Free detained judge, Abdulwahab Mohammad Qatran

On January 2, 2024, Abdulwahab Mohammad Qatran, a Yemeni judge known for criticizing the Huthi authorities, was forcefully taken from...

Support Saudi Woman Detained Over Tweets

Saudi authorities detained 29-year-old Manahel al-Otaibi on November 16, 2022, for her tweets supporting women’s rights. Since November 2023, her...

Mexico: Demand Transparency in the Case of the 43 Missing Students

The search for what happened to the 43 students who went missing on September 26, 2014, is still underway. Their...

SYRIA: Justice for missing Kurdish student

Fidaa Mohammad Qassem, an 18-year-old student from Kobani, Syria, went missing under mysterious circumstances. On April 6, 2023, she did...

Mexico’s Disappearance Strategy Risks Missing Persons Search

On December 14, 2023, the Mexican government unveiled the outcomes of their Disappeared Persons Search Strategy. Central to this strategy...

Iraq: Reveal fate of disappeared journalist, Bassem al-Zaak

On October 24, 2021, journalist Bassem al-Zaak was abducted while he was live-streaming a sit-in organized by a political bloc...

Russian Federation: Spanish national forcibly disappeared by Russia

Russian authorities have forcibly disappeared Mariano García Calatayud, a 75-year-old Spanish volunteer humanitarian worker whom their forces had abducted from...

Burkina Faso: Human rights defender forcibly disappeared

On December 1, human rights defender, Daouda Diallo was abducted by security forces in civilian clothes while he was renewing...

Russia: Fears of prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny forcibly disappeared

Responding to the news that Aleksei Navalny, prominent Russian opposition political activist and prisoner of conscience, is no longer officially...

Kanahus Manuel: “Canada must end violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ land and water defenders”

Kanahus Manuel is a land and water defender, tattoo artist and traditional birth keeper belonging to the Secwepemc and Ktunaxa...

Egypt: Unfairly held student denied prosthetic leg

Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human...

Iraq: Demand truth and justice for disappeared activist

On September 19, 2020, a group of armed men abducted Sajjad al-Iraqi from a vehicle he was travelling in with...

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