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USA: Release Cleared Men From Guantanamo

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 66/22 BELOW Out of the 36 men who remain at the US military prison in...

SAUDI ARABIA: Lebanese Man Disappeared

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 72/22 BELOW Ali Maziad’s family told Amnesty International that they immediately contacted several police stations...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Artist’s Pretrial Detention Extended Again

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 36/22 UPDATE 2 HERE On 29 July a court extended the pretrial detention of artist...

IRAN: Torturerd German-Iranian Facing Death Sentence

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 41/21, UPDATE 2 BELOW Iranian authorities have forcibly disappeared and are torturing Jamshid Sharmahd, a...

China: Missing and Arbitrarily Detained in Xinjiang

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 61/21 UPDATE 1 BELOW 48 individuals from predominantly Muslim ethnic groups have been allegedly interned...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 71/22 BELOW On 15 July, a court in Krasnodar (southern Russia) sentenced Andrei Pivovarov to...

ZIMBABWE: Draft Law Threatens Existence of NGOs

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 68/22 BELOW On 5 November 2021, the Zimbabwe government gazetted a Private Voluntary Organization Amendment...

EGYPT: Student Unjustly Convicted by Special Court

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 15/21 UPDATE 2 BELOW On 4 July 2022, a Misdemeanours Emergency State Security Court (ESSC)...

MADAGASCAR: Teacher Released But Conviction Upheld

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 21/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On 10 May, human rights defender Jeannot Randriamanana – who had...

GREECE: Rescue 50 Stranded Refugees

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 70/22 BELOW Since 14 July, 50 people seeking safety, including 12 children, three pregnant women...

YEMEN: Release Arbitrarily Detained Journalist

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 69/22 BELOW Journalist Younis Abdelsalam has been arbitrarily detained without charge by the Huthi de...

COLOMBIA: Protect environmental defendersat risk

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 50/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On July 5th, Yuli Velásquez, President of the Federation of Santander...

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