Spanish GENEVA (23 November 2017) – The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression, David Kaye, and the Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Edison Lanza, will make a joint visit to Mexico
China: UN experts condemn jailing of human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong
Chinese GENEVA (23 November 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* has appealed to the Government of China to unconditionally release Jiang Tianyong, a human rights lawyer jailed for two years after being found guilty of inciting
Cameroon: human rights must be respected to end cycle of violence
GENEVA (17 November 2017) – The Government of Cameroon must engage representatives of the Anglophone population in a meaningful political dialogue and halt renewed violence in the south-west and north-west, where the country’s English-speaking minority are reportedly suffering worsening human
Turkey in the ECtHR
Last June, the European Court of Human Rights communicated a set of eight cases involving journalists detained in Turkey. In October, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights filed written observations on those cases and a few others, which