9 May 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Hungary
Article on assistance provided by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) to Ukrainian refugees arriving in Hungary
Hungary: Civil society rallies to help refugees from Ukraine (Appeal or News Release, English)
2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), PAHRA - Philippine Alliance for Human Rights Advocates (Author)
Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Report on gender-based torture (FGM and reproductive violence in Sri Lanka; trafficking and sexual exploitation in the Philippines; torture and victims of conflict-era sexual violence in Nepal; torture of women at the India-Bangladesh border; sexual and gender-based violence against women in the workplace in Cambodia; rape in Bangladesh, including socio-legal issues and barriers to justice; violence against women under Taliban rule in Afghanistan)
Women break the silence; Gender-based torture in Asia (Special or Analytical Report, English)
6 May 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture (Author), Human Rights Centre ZMINA; Centre for Civil Liberties; Media Initiative for Human Rights; nformation Resource Centre “Legal Space” ; Crimean Human Rights Group (Author)
Ukraine
Overview of serious human rights violations committed in the context of the armed conflict (extrajudicial killings and injuring of civilians; enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment)
Ukraine: killings, kidnappings and torture of civilians in territories under Russian control (Appeal or News Release, English)
5 May 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Egypt
Human rights defender from the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms (ECRF) released from arbitrary detention
Egypt: Release of human rights defender Ibrahim Ezz El-Din [EGY 002 / 0619 / OBS 050.4] (Appeal or News Release, English)
4 May 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Russian Federation, Ukraine
Crimea: Citizen journalist and nurse arbitrarily arrested after working to promote the rights of medical personnel and to highlight shortcomings in the health care system
Ukraine/Russia: Abduction of citizen journalist Iryna Danilovich [RUS 006 / 0522 / OBS 034] (Appeal or News Release, English)
29 April 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Türkiye
Human rights defender Osman Kavala sentenced to life imprisonment for "attempting to overthrow the government"
Turkey: Sentencing to aggravated life imprisonment of Osman Kavala [TUR 002 / 0422 / OBS 033] (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 April 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
India
Madhya Pradesh state: Journalist arbitrarily detained, tortured and ill-treated
India: Arbitrary arrest and ill-treatment of journalist Kanishk Tiwari [IND 002 / 0422 / OBS 031] (Appeal or News Release, English)
21 April 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Türkiye
Öztürk Türkdoğan, co-chairperson of the NGO Human Rights Association (IHD), acquitted of charges of membership to an illegal armed organisation; other charges against him, which are also related to his work, remain active
Turkey: Acquittal and ongoing judicial harassment of Öztürk Türkdoğan [New information TUR 002 / 0321 / OBS 039.3] (Appeal or News Release, English)
20 April 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Vietnam
Detained land rights defender tortured and ill-treated; his mother and brother are held in arbitrary detention
Vietnam: Ill-treatment while in detention of land rights defender Trinh Ba Phuong (Appeal or News Release, English)
20 April 2022 | OMCT – World Organisation Against Torture
Türkiye
Prison term of 6 years and 3 months imposed against Eren Keskin, co-chair of the NGO Human Rights Association (IHD), for membership to an armed group upheld by appeals court
Turkey: Sentencing of Human Rights Association co-president Eren Keskin [TUR 001 / 0120 / OBS 002.5] (Appeal or News Release, English)