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
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
UN human rights experts urge Kazakhstan to halt clampdown on land reform protesters
GENEVA (12 May 2016) – United Nations human rights experts* today called on the Government of Kazakhstan to protect the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of expression after mass arrests, detention and criminal prosecutions following demonstrations over
Egypt: Worsening crackdown on protest, a further setback to human rights – UN experts
GENEVA (9 May 2016) – Three United Nations human rights experts today urged the Egyptian Government to put an end to the disproportionate reactions against the exercise of the rights to assembly and expression in the country. “The worsening crackdown