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Human rights defenders (746)
Dec 16 2019 1:48pm
Nine activists jailed for protesting
Nine activists, Guy Marius Sagna, Mamadou Diao Diallo, Malick Biaye, P...
Dec 12 2019 11:48am
First Update: Professor at risk of arrest, remains on no-fly list
Professor Muhammad Ismail was granted conditional bail on 25 November,...
Dec 10 2019 2:20pm
First Update: Housing rights researcher in detention after enforced disappearance
On 26 November 2019, Ibrahim Ezz El-Din, a housing rights researcher w...
Dec 10 2019 12:53pm
First update: Rights defender facing trumped-up charges
The trial of Server Mustafayev has started, following his transfer to ...
Dec 5 2019 5:04pm
Women activists face prison sentences
11 Saudi women activists on trial before the Criminal Court in Riyadh ...
Dec 3 2019 4:37pm
Human rights organisation threatened
Members of dhColombia have been under surveillance, from unknown men, ...
Nov 29 2019 12:01am
Governments failing to protect women activists from increasing attacks – new report
Women activists subjected to sexual violence, smear campaigns and thre...
Nov 28 2019 4:14pm
Pakistan: Disappeared human rights defender at risk of torture
Muhammad Idris Khattak, a Pakistani human rights defender and independ...
Nov 26 2019 3:59pm
The Maldives: NGO shut down and staff at risk of attack
The Maldivian Democracy Network (MDN) was permanently shut down by the...
Nov 25 2019 11:15am
Human rights defender's body found after 40 days missing
Authorities found the body of indigenous human rights defender, Arnulf...