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TANZANIA: Stop Violent Forced Eviction of the Maasia

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 35/22 BELOW More than 70,000 Indigenous Maasai people are at risk of being evicted from...

ALGERIA: Investigate Torture of Whistleblower

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 43/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Mohamed Benhlima is an activist, former military official and whistleblower who...

USA: Texas Court Blocks Execution

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 57/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On 11 July 2022, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (TCCA)...

CUBA: Political Leader Held Incommunicado

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 67/22 BELOW José Daniel Ferrer García, leader of the unofficial political opposition group “Patriotic Union...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Activist Sentenced to Imprisonment

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 34/21, UPDATE 4 HERE On 27 May, the Sovetskii District Court in Nizhnii Novgorod sentenced...

IRAN: Mother with Baby Denied Proper Care in Jail

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 65/22 BELOW Prosecution authorities and Ministry of Intelligence agents are denying arbitrarily detained Kurdish Iranian...

IRAN: Sick Political Activist Held Incommunicado

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 7/22 UPDATE 2 BELOW Iranian activist Abbas Vahedian has been detained incommunicado since 5 May...

BAHRAIN: Hunger-Striking Academic Denied Medication

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 11/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Unjustly jailed Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace, who has been on a hunger...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Jailed Ukrainian Denied Urgent Medical Care

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 64/22 BELOW Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Marchenko is serving a ten-year sentence in Russia for espionage...

THAILAND: Sister of Abducted Activist Charged for Campaigning

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 63/22 BELOW Human rights defender Sitanun Satsaksit has been working to ensure authorities in Cambodia...

SINGAPORE: Further Executions Set

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 15/22, UPDATE 2 BELOW Hangings have resumed in Singapore for drug related offenses, after Abdul...

TUNISIA: Journalist Prosecuted by Military Court

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 62/22 BELOW On 11 June 2022, two police officers in plainclothes arrested journalist Salah Attia....

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