GENEVA (2 June 2016) – Two United Nations human rights experts today called on the Government of Viet Nam to stop the persecution of Ms. Tran Thi Hong, who has been repeatedly arrested and tortured as retaliation for informing the
Bahrain: UN expert condemns the sentencing of opposition leader Sheikh Ali al-Salman
GENEVA (1 June 2016) – The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, today condemned the sentencing to nine years imprisonment on charges of inciting violence of Sheikh Ali al-Salman, the leader of the Wefaq opposition
Release of Khadija Ismayilova from Prison in Azerbaijan
This morning, California time, I was thrilled to awake to the news of the journalist and activist Khadija Ismayilova’s release from prison in Azerbaijan. As she put it upon release, “my arrest was undertaken solely for political reasons”. Her release comes
UN rights experts urge Cambodia to stop attacks against civil society and human rights defenders
GENEVA (12 May 2016) – United Nations human rights experts* today called on the Government of Cambodia to stop targeting civil society, human rights defenders, parliamentarians and UN personnel, and to take effective measures to protect civil society and respect