Azerbaijan has, over the past two years, tightened its grip on independent journalism and civil society to an extent that…
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In recent months, journalists and human rights defenders alike have been hit with heavy sentences, often for simply speaking out….
Environmental defenders are winning real victories, in courtrooms, in communities, in policy. But repression is rising just as fast: stigmatisation,…
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the paediatrician and former director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, is now facing what his lawyer describes…
Over the past two months, Sahrawi human rights defenders in occupied Western Sahara have faced an escalating campaign of sieges,…
Three cases from Pakistan this month underline the same pattern: human rights defenders who report on state repression, or who…
Across India, human rights defenders, journalists, and labour activists are facing an escalating pattern of arbitrary detention, torture, and judicial…
In Nicaragua, indigenous human rights defenders continue to face arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture, and death in state custody, with…
In Tunisia, authorities are systematically using criminal law to silence human rights defenders, judges, journalists, and civil society organisations, with…
Recent alerts received highlight a deeply concerning pattern of arbitrary detention, attacks, and judicial persecution targeting journalists and human rights…
