Press releases in 2021

Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel were sentenced to death in 2014 Responding to the Lahore High Court’s decision to acquit Shagufta Kausar and her husband Shafqat Emmanuel, a Christian couple who...

Authorities must stop stifling dissent, and instead protect the media A recent series of attacks and growing pressure on journalists who criticise the Pakistan government is a cause for serious...

Annual gathering in Victoria Park banned for second successive year Pro-Beijing figures have said participation could violate draconian national security law ‘People must not be punished for the...

‘ The PSNI’s discriminatory approach to policing the Black Lives Matter protests, and their failure to consider the right to peaceful protest, demolished any supposed justification for pursuing...

Andrei Pivovarov, executive director of Open Russia, removed from flight about to depart for Poland Pivovarov’s home searched, while others have homes raided by special forces ‘The witch-hunt against...