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Olivier Vandecasteele is a Belgian aid worker

Iran: Detained Belgian aid worker, Olivier Vandecasteele must be released immediately!

Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment. He is held in...

Good News from Chile: Investigations into torture of Moisés Órdenes continue

On February 24, 2023, a court in Chile ordered the reopening of investigations into the officers involved in the attack...

Belarus: Human rights defender, Nasta Loika faces criminal charges

Belarussian human rights defender, (Anastacia) Nasta Loika is facing unfounded criminal charges after serving almost 75 days in detention for...

Iran: Kurdish men forcibly disappeared for months

Download a copy of the 1st UA 20/23 below Iranian authorities have forcibly disappeared Iranian Kurdish dissidents Pejman Fatehi, Vafa...

Ex-prisoner of conscience detained in Cuba

Download a copy of the 1st UA 19/23 below On February 14, 2023, state security officials detained former prisoner of...

Image of the Guapinol river with a painted rock with the inscription 'Rio Guapinol'

Honduran water defenders under attack

Download a copy of the 2nd UA 03/23 below Attacks on Honduran water defenders in the community of Guapinol persist...

ALGERIA: Jailed brother of activist on hunger strike

Download a copy of the 1st UA 18/23 below On 16 February 2023, Algerian father of four and shop owner,...

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is the president of the women’s rights organization, Stop Violence. In this image, she has black tape across her lips.

ANDORRA: Women’s rights activist, Vanessa Mendoza Cortés, faces trial

Download a copy of the 1st UA 15/23 below Women’s rights defender, Vanessa Mendoza Cortés could soon stand trial for...

SOUTH SUDAN: Forcefully returned critic held incommunicado

Download a copy of the 1st UA 17/23 below On February 04, Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak, a South Sudanese critic,...

USA: Execution set after 32 years on death row

Download a copy of the 1st UA 16/23 below The State of Florida is scheduled to execute Donald Dillbeck on...

THAILAND: Child protesters targeted

Download a copy of the 1st UA 14/23 below Thai authorities are prosecuting and harassing child human rights defenders for...

Floriane Irangabiye, a young journalist from Burundi, was sentenced to 10 years in prison

BURUNDI: Journalist’s conviction must be overturned

Download a copy of the 1st UA 13/23 below On January 02, the High Court of Mukaza in Bujumbura, Burundi,...

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