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• 20 January 2020 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Turkey

  Human rights lawyer and co-president of the Human Rights Association (İHD) continues to be prosecuted on charges of membership in a terrorist organisation

  Turkey: Continuing judicial harassment of human rights lawyer Ms. Eren Keskin [​TUR 001 / 0120 / OBS 002] (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2023049

• 20 January 2020 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (Author), CFDA Collectif pour les familles de Disparus en Algérie; SNAPAP; LADDH - Ligue Algérienne de Défense des Droits de l’Homme; et al. (Author)

  Algeria

  Joint NGO statement calling on the Algerian government to release all political prisoners and respect freedom of expression and assembly or association

  Algérie: Main dans la main avec le peuple algérien pour la démocratie et la liberté (Appeal or News Release, French)

  frID 2023051

• 9 January 2020 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Algeria

  Oran: Trade unionist and president of the local office of the Algerian League for the Defence of Human Rights released from detention pending trial

  Algérie: Libération provisoire et poursuite du harcèlement judiciaire de M. Kaddour Chouicha [DZA 002 / 1019 / OBS 086.2] (Appeal or News Release, French)

  frID 2022593

• 8 January 2020 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Afghanistan

  State prosecutor initiates investigation into systematic sexual abuse of boys by state officials, warlords and other powerful individuals

  Afghanistan: In rare move, government launches investigations into systematic sexual abuse of children (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2022396

• 31 December 2019 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Colombia

  Bolívar department: Assassination attempt against human rights defender

  Colombia: Intento de asesinato contra Milena Quiroz [COL 008 / 1219 / OBS 116] (Appeal or News Release, Spanish)

  esID 2022122

• 27 December 2019 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Morocco

  Journalist arbitrarily detained

  Maroc: Détention arbitraire et harcèlement judiciaire de M. Omar Radi [​MAR 005 / 1219 / OBS 115] (Appeal or News Release, French)

  frID 2022020

• 26 December 2019 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Uganda

  2 witnesses, who testified against oil firm Total in France, face threats and intimidation after returning to Uganda

  Uganda: Two defenders who testified in the trial against Total are at risk in Uganda (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2022019

• 23 December 2019 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture

  Egypt

  Human rights defender, who is also board member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), arbitrarily detained

  Egypt: Abitrary detention of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Fattah, board member of the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) [EGY 011 / 1219 / OBS 112] (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2022018

• 22 December 2019 | AI – Amnesty International (Author), FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (Author), OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), ARTICLE 19 (Author), IFJ – International Federation of Journalists (Author), RSF – Reporters Sans Frontières (Author), ICJ – International Commission of Jurists (Author), CamboJA - Cambodian Journalists Alliance (Autor); et al. (Author)

  Cambodia

  Joint NGO statement on prosecution of 2 journalists and state crackdown on independent media

  Cambodia: Civil society organizations call for all baseless charges against journalists to be dropped [ASA 23/1615/2019] (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2021979

• 20 December 2019 | AI – Amnesty International (Author), FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (Author), EMHRN – EuroMed Rights (formerly: Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, EMHRN) (Author), HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author), OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), CIHRS - Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies; et al. (Author)

  Egypt

  Joint NGO statement calling for the release of a human rights defender who has undergone torture and enforced disappearance; information on state crackdown on human rights defenders

  Egypt: Release human rights researcher Ibrahim Ezz el-Din after his torture and enforced disappearance [MDE 12/1614/2019] (Appeal or News Release, English)

  enID 2021977

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