16 February 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Egypt
Detained father of a human rights defender is denied urgently needed medical care
Egypt: Rights defender’s imprisoned father at risk (Appeal or News Release, English)
14 February 2022 | AI – Amnesty International (Author), FIDH – International Federation for Human Rights (Author), Front Line Defenders (Author), HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author), ICJ – International Commission of Jurists (Author), OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), FORUM-ASIA - Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development et al. (Author)
Sri Lanka
Joint NGO statement on the Sri Lankan government's intimidating reaction to the statement given by human rights defender Ambika Satkunanathan to the European Parliament on the human rights situation in Sri Lanka
Joint NGO statement in solidarity with Sri Lankan human rights defender Ambika Satkunanathan [ASA 37/5235/2022] (Appeal or News Release, English)
9 February 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Russian Federation
Chechnya: Zarema Musaeva arbitrarily detained after her abduction in January 2022 as a reprisal of her sons's criticism of the Chechen government
Russia: Arbitrary and incommunicado detention of Zarema Musaeva [RUS 002 / 0122 / OBS 006.1] (Appeal or News Release, English)
2 February 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Iran
Joint NGO statement on additional sentence of more than 8 years in prison and 74 lashes for imprisoned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi
Iran: Narges Mohammadi gets additional eight-year prison sentence (Appeal or News Release, English)
31 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Türkiye
Ongoing judicial harassment against human rights lawyer and co-chairperson of the Human Rights Association (İnsan Hakları Derneği, İHD)
Turkey: Judicial harassment against Mr. Öztürk Türkdoğan [TUR 002 / 0321 / OBS 039.1] (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Türkiye
Istanbul: Release and ongoing judicial harassment of 2 students and participants in the student mobilisation “Boğaziçi Resistance Movement”
Turkey: Release and ongoing judicial harassment of Ersin Berke Gök and Caner Perit Özen [TUR 009 / 1221 / OBS 130.1] (Appeal or News Release, English)
26 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
India
Joint NGO statement on the harassment of 18 human rights defenders for their advocacy work against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019
India: Ongoing targeting of 18 human rights defenders under anti-terror laws (Appeal or News Release, English)
26 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
State of Palestine
Joint NGO letter to the Dutch government to resume funding for Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC); Israeli government designated UAWC and 5 other Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations
Organisations urge the Dutch government to resume funding for Palestinian organisation (Appeal or News Release, English)
22 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Russian Federation
Mother of human rights lawyer Abubakar Yangulbaev, who works for the NGO Committee Against Torture, has been abducted
Russia: Abduction of mother of human rights lawyer Abubakar Yangulbaev [RUS 002 / 0122 / OBS 006] (Appeal or News Release, English)
14 January 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
India
Judicial harassment against Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns (CPSC); search of its offices in the city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu state
India: Judicial harassment against the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns [IND 001 / 0122 / OBS 002] (Appeal or News Release, English)