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Canada: Drop charges against land defenders

The Indigenous Wet’suwet’en Nation is protecting its ancestral lands and waterways against the construction of a gas pipeline. Wet’suwet’en land...

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi must be released immediately and unconditionally 

Reacting to the news that unjustly imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,...

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Mexico: Land, environment defenders criminalized for exercising right to protest

A new Amnesty International report shines a light on the use of Mexico's criminal justice system to suppress people's right...
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Venezuela: Detained unionist, Guillermo Zarraga’s life is at grave risk

Guillermo Zárraga, a 59-year-old Venezuelan former unionist, was arbitrarily detained in Venezuela in November 2020. Since being taken from his...

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Egypt: Unjustly jailed Egyptian-British yet to be released

Egyptian-British prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah remains arbitrarily detained in Wadi al-Natrun prison and denied access to consular visits. On...

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Cuba: Prisoner of conscience, Maykel Osorbo in danger

Maykel Castillo Pérez, also known as “Maykel Osorbo,” is a Cuban musician and prisoner of conscience who has faced constant...

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Bolivia: Human rights defender ends 52-day vigil

After 52 days of vigil, Amparo Carvajal was able to exit the premises of the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights...

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Argentina: Human rights defender detained for protesting

Alberto Nallar, human rights lawyer was detained on July 13, and charged with the crime of sedition. He played a...

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Madagascar: Environmental rights defender at risk

Angélique Decampe, President of the community association Razan’ny Vohibola, is an environmental human rights defender, actively involved in protecting the...

Hoda Abdelmoniem

Egypt: Unjustly jailed lawyer denied healthcare

On March 05, an emergency court convicted human rights lawyer, Hoda Abdelmoniem on bogus charges stemming from her human rights...

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Bolivia: Human rights defenders at risk

84-year-old human rights defender, Amparo Carvajal has spent over 45 days in vigil in cold temperatures outside the Permanent Assembly...

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Belarus (outcome): Human rights defender, Nasta Loika sentenced to seven years

Nasta (Anastasia) Loika was sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony for “inciting racial, national, religious or other social...

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