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07.06.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Chad

About 20 people, including several members of parliament, journalists and senior military officers arrested in connection with an alleged attempted coup [ID 249390]

06.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Iran

Report on economic and social rights with a focus on labour rights (legal framework, discrimination against women, discrimination at work, trade union rights) [ID 249696]

31.05.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights - Author: Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ); Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC); Belarusian Human Rights House; Human Rights Centre “Viasna”; Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF)

Belarus

Advocacy note published by the FIDH and 4 other human rights groups on the human rights situation in the country (rule of law, government system, death penalty, political prisoners, freedom of expression, association and assembly) [ID 249394]

16.05.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Korea, Democratic People's Republic

Report on the imposition and application of the death penalty [ID 247435]

10.05.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Turkey

Pianist Fazil Say sentenced to 10 months in prison for “insulting religious values” after sharing a verse of a 12-century Persian poet on social networks [ID 246979]

02.05.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Belarus

A number of activists and journalists have been arrested and detained in the context of a mass event held on 26 April 2013 in commemoration of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster [ID 246977]

17.04.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Bangladesh

Dhaka: Journalist Mahmudur Rahman arrested and remanded into police custody; in late 2012, he had published the transcript of a Skype conversation between the former chairman justice of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) and a foreign adviser [ID 246971]

03.04.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Egypt

Article on increasing government crackdown on journalists and political opponents [ID 246965]

04.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Syrian Arab Republic

Briefing paper on violence against women in the context of the Syrian crisis (rape and other forms of sexual violence, abductions) [ID 246660]

21.03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Guinea

Conakry: Article on violence that erupted after a demonstration on 27 February 2013 and lasted for several days; at least 9 people killed and over 200 injured in clashes [ID 246661]

08.03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Saudi Arabia

Article on the situation of women [ID 246663]

07.03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Bangladesh

At least 98 people killed in violent protests that began on 5 February 2013 and intensified after the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) handed down a death sentence on 28 February 2013 against Delwar Hossain Sayedee, the vice-president of the Jamaat party [ID 246662]

05.03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights - Author: FIDH & Viasna

Belarus

Brief report on persons subject to imprisonment or other restrictions of freedom for politically motivated reasons [ID 242461]

04.03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Myanmar

Brief report on the human rights situation in view of foreign investment in the country's economy (evictions of farmers and communities; labour conditions; legal remedies; right to peaceful assembly; lack of transparency) [ID 242063]

03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights - Author: Civil Society Institute, Norwegian Helsinki Committee, International Federation for Human Rights

Armenia

Monitoring report on the legal system and judicial practice (right to effective remedy, judicial independence, fair trial, torture and other ill-treatment, penitentiary system, juvenile justice) (reporting period May 2010 - December 2012) [ID 246959]

03.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Côte d'Ivoire

Report on an attack on the Nahibly IDP camp by Malinké youth from the nearby town of Duékoué on 20 July 2012 [ID 246658]

27.02.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Uzbekistan

Human rights activist Mutabar Tadjibayeva has filed a complaint against government for her torture and forced sterilisation during her imprisonment from 2005 to 2008 [ID 242058]

26.02.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Russian Federation

Brief report on legislation and judicial and police practices targeting civil society activists [ID 242050]

18.02.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Guinea

Commandant Sékou Resco Camara, the governor of Conakry, has been indicted for acts of torture committed in October 2010 [ID 242040]

13.02.2013 - International Federation for Human Rights

Iran

Former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and the latter's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, under house arrest since 14 February 2011; 2 daughters of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard and son of Mehdi Karroubi arrested on 11 February 2013 and released on same day [ID 238485]