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IRAN: Kurdish Dissident Forcibly Disappeared

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 81/22 BELOW Iran’s prosecution authorities and security and intelligence agents in West Azerbaijan Province have...

ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Health Fears For Tortured Palestinian Detainee

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 79/22 BELOW Ahmad Manasra, a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, has been in solitary confinement...

USA: Man With Mental Disability Facing Execution

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 78/22 BELOW Benjamin Cole, aged 57, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on 20...

EGYPT: Opposition Politician’s Health Deteriorating

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 77/22 BELOW Former presidential candidate, founder and president of the political party, Misr Al-Qawia, Abdelmoniem...

USA: Governor Rejects Clemency, Execution Proceeds

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 73/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW James Coddington, aged 50, was executed in Oklahoma on 25 August...

IRAN: Intensified Assault on Baha’i Minority

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 76/22 BELOW Iran’s persecuted Baha’i minority are suffering escalated attacks on their human rights. Since...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION/UKRAINE: Crimean Human Rights Lawyers Disbarred

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 75/22 BELOW On 15 July, lawyers Lilya Gemedzhi, Rustem Kyamilev and Nazim Sheikhmambetov were disbarred...

SAUDI ARABIA: Release Activist Jailed 34 Years for Tweets

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 74/22 BELOW On 9 August, the Specialized Criminal Court in the Saudi capital, Riyadh sentenced,...

PHILIPPINES: Ombudsman Dismisses Bribery Charges Against Leila de Lima

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 48/22 UPDATE 2 BELOW On 9 August, the Philippines’ Office of the Ombudsman rejected the...

MALDIVES: Activist released from further imprisonment

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 51/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Maldivian activist Mohamed Rusthum Mujuthaba has been relieved from further imprisonment...

CANADA: Indigenous Land Defenders At Risk

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 61/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Wet’suwet’en land defenders in Canada are at risk of serious human...

IRAN: Tortured Students Jailed Unjustly

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 76/22 BELOW On 25 April 2022, a Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced university students Ali...

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