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Afghanistan: Stop Punishing Women Protesters /

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared...
Venezuela
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Venezuela: Venezuelan Detainees’ Life At Risk /

Emirlendris Benítez is a 42-year-old mother and tradeswoman who was arbitrarily detained in August 2018 and subjected to torture. Guillermo...
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Egypt: Unjustly Held Student Denied Prosthetic Leg /

Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human rights activism...
Matiullah Wesa © AFP via Getty Images
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Afghanistan: Education Activist Matiullah Wesa Released /

Education activist Matiullah Wesa was released after nearly seven months in prison. He was jailed for promoting girls right to education. NO...
Chile protest
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Chile: UN Experts Alarmed Over Impunity In Chile /

On 27 November 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions...
Irina Danilovich
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Russian Federation: Imprisoned Nurse May Fully Lose Hearing /

Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist, was abducted by security officers in Russian-occupied Crimea in April 2022 and...
Mohamed Ibrahim Osman Bulbul
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Somalia: Journalist Released And All Charges Dropped /

On 17 August, plain-clothed security officers arrested Mohamed Ibrahim Osman Bulbul, a journalist with Kaab TV and staff member of a local...
Mexico
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Mexico: Climate Displaced People Need A Home Urgently /

On 13 November, 69 people from "El Bosque" community (Tabasco) were forced to leave a temporary shelter in Frontera Village due to inhumane...
Aleksandra Skochilenko
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Russian Federation: Artist Sentenced To Seven Years In Prison /

On 16 November 2023 Aleksandra Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for “disseminating knowingly false information about the...
Narges Mohammadi
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Iran: Jailed Nobel Peace Prize Laureate’s Health At Risk /

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to...
Saturday Mothers
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Türkiye: Fully Open Galatasaray Square /

On 11 November, after over five years of being banned, 10 representatives of Saturday Mothers/People, a group of relatives of victims of...
Argentina
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Argentina: Human Rights Defender Imprisoned /

Alberto Nallar is a human rights lawyer who took an active role during the protests in Jujuy province that began on June 15. He is being...
Refugees
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Peru: Refugees In Peru Risk Mass Expulsions /

Venezuelan nationals in Peru no longer can apply for temporary protection, which allowed refugees to have a regular migratory status. On 14...
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Pakistan: Stop Deporting Afghan Refugees /

On 3 October 2023, the Pakistani government announced its decision to deport unregistered Afghan refugees back to danger in Afghanistan by 1...
Death Penalty
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United States: Clemency Rejected, Texas Execution Proceeds /

Brent Brewer was executed in Texas on 9 November 2023. His 1991 death sentence was overturned in 2007, but he was resentenced to death in...
Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei
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Iran: Tortured Iranian Kurdish Man Sentenced To Death /

Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at risk of execution in relation to the September to December 2022 nationwide protests in...
Venezuelan migrants crossing the border bridge
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Peru: Refugees In Peru Face Impossible Deadline /

As of 10 November 2023, Venezuelan nationals in Peru will no longer be able to apply for temporary protection. This status is essential for...
Anon Nampa
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Thailand: Rights Lawyer Imprisoned For Peaceful Protest /

Human rights defender and pro-democracy activist Anon Nampa has received two prison sentences for peacefully exercising his rights and faces...