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Press releases in 2016

Film screening (London): new documentary on Syrian child refugees - Thur 31 March, 7pm
Egypt: NGOs 'being treated like an enemy of the state', say 14 leading NGOs

Crackdown includes jails sentences, forced closures, travel bans, asset freezes and ever-widening judicial investigations

Turkey has forcibly returned dozens of Afghans despite Taliban persecution risk

Turkey’s forcible return of around 30 Afghan asylum-seekers just hours after the European Union-Turkey refugee deal came into force shows that implementing the deal risks refugees’ live

Jordan: injured Syrian refugees turned away at border - new report

Thousands of Syrian refugees in country also blocked from accessing health services

ICC conviction of former Congolese Vice-President of rape as war crime - 'historic' moment
Russia: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko must get retrial after 'deeply politicised' trial

‘Nadiya never had a hope of proving her innocence’ - John Dalhuisen

Egypt: Planned asset freezes are government's latest tool to eradicate civil society

The Egyptian authorities are expected to freeze the assets of two prominent human rights defenders and their family members tomorrow as part of an investigation into foreign funding of NGOs.

Arms to Saudi Arabia: Five giant missiles delivered to Downing Street one year since start of Yemen conflict
South Africa: Supreme Court ruling shows there can be no impunity for alleged war criminals
Northern Ireland: Abuse survivors unite to tell politicians what they want from redress

Victims of historic child abuse in Northern Ireland are urging the Stormont Executive to provide redress for the suffering experienced in residential institutions.