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Documents found: 5,223

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)
en ID 2074760
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)
en ID 2074861
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)
en ID 2074863
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)
en ID 2074712
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)
en ID 2074755
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)
en ID 2074757
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)
en ID 2074753
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)
en ID 2074750
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)
en ID 2074711
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)
en ID 2074744

Independent journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara, who has been covering recent anti-government protests, summoned by police in connection with his reporting

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

Brief report on human rights violations and instances of torture (covering January to June 2022)

Report on administrative harassment of human rights defenders, civil society actors, NGOs and independent voices

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

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

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

Death threats against Akem Kelvin Nkwain, member of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa (CHRDA), and his family

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)

Head of the Pamir Layers Association and several members of the human rights organisation Commission 44 arbitrarily arrested