28 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Sri Lanka
Independent journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara, who has been covering recent anti-government protests, summoned by police in connection with his reporting
Sri Lanka: Judicial harassment against independent journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara [LKA 002 / 0622 / OBS 057] (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Turkey
Prominent human rights defender Pinar Selek, who is living in exile in France, sentenced to life imprisonment in connection with a bomb attack carried out in 1998
Turkey: The life sentence for Pinar Selek is an outrageous decision (Appeal or News Release, English)
June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), LAN - Libyan Anti-Torture Network (Author)
Libya
Brief report on human rights violations and instances of torture (covering January to June 2022)
Libya: New patterns of human rights violations and absence of accountability (Appeal or News Release, English)
June 2022 | FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (Author), OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), IHD - Human Rights Association (Author), OBS - Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (Author)
Turkey
Report on administrative harassment of human rights defenders, civil society actors, NGOs and independent voices
Turkey Part III; Drowned in Procedure, Sentenced to Fail: Administrative Harassment Against Civil Society in Turkey (Special or Analytical Report, English)
27 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
India
Uttar Pradesh state: Father of Muslim human rights defender Afreen Fatima still held in arbitrary detention and transferred to a different prison without notification of his family or lawyer
India: Arbitrary detention and criminalisation of Afreen Fatima's father [IND 003 / 0622 / OBS 047.1] (Appeal or News Release, English)
27 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
China
2 human rights lawyers, who are members of the New Citizens Movement, tortured, ill-treated and tried behind closed doors on charges of subversion of state power
China: Closed-door trials against human rights lawyers Xu Zhiyong and Ding Jiaxi [CHN 001 / 0622 / OBS 056] (Appeal or News Release, English)
23 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Vietnam
Environmental activist Nguy Thi Khanh sentenced to 2 years in prison for tax evasion for failing to pay tax on prize money she was awarded
Vietnam: Sentencing and arbitrary detention of environmental rights defender Nguy Thi Khanh [VNM 002 / 0622 / OBS 054] (Appeal or News Release, English)
21 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Cameroon
Death threats against Akem Kelvin Nkwain, member of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA), and his family
Cameroon: Death threats against rights defender Akem Kelvin Nkwain [CMR 001 / 0622 / OBS 050] (Appeal or News Release, English)
2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Turkey
Brief report on the excessive use of force by police against assemblies and demontrations (legal framework; impunity of law enforcement officials; impact on civic space)
Briefing Note on Police Brutality in Turkey; Excessive Use of Force against Assemblies and Demonstrations (Special or Analytical Report, English)
15 June 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Tajikistan
Head of the Pamir Layers Association and several members of the human rights organisation Commission 44 arbitrarily arrested
Tajikistan: Arbitrary detention of three members of the human rights initiative ‘Commission 44’ [TJK 002 / 0622 / OBS 046] (Appeal or News Release, English)