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VENEZUELA: Lawsuit Against Defenders Reaches Settlement

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 47/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On 22 June 2022, Marino Alvarado and Alfredo Infante reached a...

IRAN: Health of Tortured Iranian Defender at Risk

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 105/15 UPDATE 10 BELOW Arbitrarily detained Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is being tortured...

TURKEY: Pride March Dispersed With Excessive Force

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 52/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW Police violently broke up the student-organized Pride march on 10 June...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Activist Risks Prison Term As Trial Ends

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 138/20, UPDATE 3 BELOW The trial against Yulia Tsvetkova, an artist and activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur...

SAUDI ARABIA: Arrested at 14, Tortured, Now Faces Execution

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 60/22 BELOW Abdullah al-Huwaiti, who was arrested when he was 14, is at imminent risk...

BRAZIL: Environmental Defenders Murdered

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 54/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On the morning of 5 June, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips,...

IRAN: Finger Amputation Risk For Eight Prisoners

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 59/22 BELOW At least eight prisoners in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, Tehran province, are at grave...

RUSSIAN FEDERATION: Artist’s Detention Prolonged

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 36/22 UPDATE 1 BELOW On 30 May a court extended the pretrial detention of artist...

ECUADOR: Repression of Indigenous-led protests

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 58/22 BELOW On 14 June around 0:29 a.m., security forces detained Leónidas Iza, president of...

THAILAND: Release hunger-striking activists

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 56/22 BELOW Since 2 June 2022, two women have been on hunger strike calling for...

EGYPT: Unjustly jailed couple tried by Emergency Court

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 55/22 BELOW Aisha el-Shater, 41, daughter of Muslim Brotherhood senior leader Khairat el-Shater, and her...

YEMEN: Release Journalists at Risk of Execution

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 27/16 UPDATE 5 BELOW On 29 May, the appeal session for four Yemeni journalists sentenced...

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