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Update: Kenya – Imprisoned human rights defender Mr Joel Ogada seeks bail...
On 16 September 2014, human rights defender Mr Joel Ogada appeared before a magistrate at the Malindi Law Courts to seek release on bail pending the hearing of his appeal. The court did not render a...
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Update: Russian Federation – Environmental rights defender Mr Evgeny Vitishko...
On 8 October 2014, Tambov Regional Penal Service officials informed the regional Public Observation Commission for detention facilities that imprisoned environmental rights defender Mr Evgeny Vitishko...
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Vietnam – Human rights defender Mr Dang Xuan Dieu severely mistreated in prison
1.jpgOn 7 October 2014, the former cell mate of imprisoned Vietnamese human rights defender Mr Dang Xuan Dieu reported the severe, inhuman treatment of Dang Xuan Dieu who has been held in isolation and...
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Saudi Arabia - Prison sentences against prominent lawyers for tweeting
map_of_saudi_arabia_march_14.jpgOn 27 October 2014, the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced three lawyers and human rights defenders, Mr Abdulrahman Al- Subaihi, Mr Bander Alnogaithan, and...
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Cambodia: Seven land rights defenders sentenced to one-year imprisonment and...
58d77c04-cd5c-4c14-8fc7-e3cac18a1afb_w640_r1_s.jpgOn 11 November 2014, seven women land rights defenders Ms Tep Vanny, Ms Nget Khun, Ms Song Sreyleap, Ms Kong Chantha, Ms Pan Chunreth, Ms Bop Chorvy...
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Update: Saudi Arabia – Fowzan Al-Harbi sentenced to ten years in prison
On 19 November 2014, human rights defender Mr Fowzan Al-Harbi was sentenced in appeal to 10 years' imprisonment and a further 10-year travel ban by Riyadh Criminal Court. The court increased the 7-year...
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Update: Morocco – Abdelkhalik Elmarkhi sentenced to four years in prison
On 27 November 2014, the First Instance Criminal Chamber at the Court of Appeal in Agadir sentenced human rights defender Mr Abdelkhalik Elmarkhi to four years' imprisonment. He spent more than seven...
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Update: Vietnam – Appeal court to rule on conviction of Ms Bui Thi Minh Hang...
On 12 December 2014, Dong Thap Province Appellate Court in Vietnam is expected to examine the sentence of human rights defender Ms Bui Thi Minh Hang who was sentenced earlier this year to three-years'...
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SWAZILAND: HRD Writing Letters from Prison Transfered to Solitary Confinement
thulani_maseko.jpegOn 17 March 2015, Thulani Maseko wrote a letter from behind bars in Swaziland. Less than 48 hours later, prison authorities transferred the human rights defender and lawyer to...
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Burma – Human rights defender Naw Ohn Hla sentenced to four months in prison
5naw-ohn-hla198_495437263833764_740173437_n.jpgOn 2 April 2015, Burmese human rights defender Ms Naw Ohn Hla was sentenced to four months in prison after being found guilty of violating the Peaceful...
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Bahrain: Open Letter from Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja to the High Commissioner for...
"The type of torture I have heard in the last few months is the worst since 2011."Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja published a open letter to the UN High Commissioner for Human...
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China – Court Sentences human rights defender Liu Jiacai to 5 years in prison
liu_jiacai.jpgOn 11 May 2015, a Chinese court in Yichang City, Hubei Province sentenced human rights defender Liu Jiacai to five years' imprisonment on charges of 'inciting subversion of state...
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Update: Bahrain – Ghada Jamsheer sentenced to one year imprisonment
On 5 May 2015, the Bahrain High Criminal Court sentenced human rights defender Ghada Jamsheer to one year imprisonment, suspended for three years.ghada_jamsheer.jpgread more
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Bahrain: HRD Hussain Jawad released on bail
Bahraini authorities released human rights defender Hussain Jawad from Jaw Prison on Tuesday, 19 May 2015. Jawad spent over three months in prison on charges of “collecting money from [within] Bahrain...
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UPDATE - Syria: Hussein Ghrer & Hani Zaitani Released From Prison
SUCCESS (green highlight): SUCCESS! Syrian blogger and human rights defender Hussein Ghrer and his colleague Hani Zaitani have been released from prison after being held since 16 February...
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