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SAUDI ARABIA: Uyghur Teenage Girl and Mother Detained

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 27/22, UPDATE 1 BELOW Uyghur woman Buheliqiemu Abula and her 13-year-old daughter were detained near...

INDONESIA: Human Rights Defenders Charged With Defamation

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 107/21, UPDATE 1 BELOW Haris Azhar and Fatia Maulidiyanti were charged on 17 March 2022...

POLAND: Activist Defending Safe Abortion Risks Jail

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 28/22 BELOW Woman human rights defender, Justyna Wydrzyńska, faces three years in prison solely for...

TUNISIA: Drop Charges Against Lawyer on Military Trial

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 26/22, UPDATE 1 BELOW Prominent lawyer and former president of the Tunisian Bar Association Abderazzak...

EGYPT: Women Risk Lengthy Imprisonment for ‘Indecency’

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 78/21, UPDATE 1 BELOW Egyptian women social media influencers Hanin Hossam and Mawada el-Adham have...

SLOVENIA: Protestors Forced to Pay Costs of Policing

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 25/22 BELOW Slovenian theatre director Jaša Jenull is facing exorbitant claims to cover the costs...

ISRAEL/OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: Palestinian Lawyer in Arbitrary Detention

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 22/22 BELOW French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hammouri has been issued a four-month administrative detention order. He...

SAUDI ARABIA: Detainee with Cancer Must Get Medical Care

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 172/19, UPDATE 4 BELOW The health of Dr. Mohammed al-Khudari (84) continues to deteriorate while...

MOROCCO: Ethnic Uyghur at Risk of Extradition to China

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 14/22 BELOW Idris Hasan, an ethnic Uyghur living in Turkey, was arrested in July 2021...

COLOMBIA: Environmental Defenders at Risk

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 17/22 BELOW Human rights defenders from the Magdalena Medio region in southeast Colombia have been...

IRAN: Tortured Kurdish Men at Risk of Execution

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 19/22 BELOW Anwar Khezri, Ayoub Karimi, Davoud Abdollahi, Farhad Salimi, Ghassem Abesteh, Kamran Sheikheh and...

PAKISTAN: Man Held Incommunicado After Forced Deportation

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 20/22 BELOW Abdul Hafeez, 37, who ran an appliance installation and servicing company in Dubai,...

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