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January 11, 2024 News Release

Egypt: Civic Space Under Siege

Political Participation Remains Curtailed, Punished

Vehicles pass near banners displaying Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for the presidential elections, in Cairo, Egypt, on December 10, 2023.

January 11, 2024 News Release

Saudi Arabia: Deadly Abuses Despite Image Campaign

Mass Killings at Yemen Border; Death Sentences; Long Prison Terms

Fans watch from the first tee during day one of the LIV Golf Invitational - Jeddah at Royal Greens Golf & Country Club on October 14, 2022, in King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia.

December 22, 2023 News Release

Kyrgyzstan: Activist Held for Opposing Flag Change

Drop Charges and Free Him; Ensure Rights to Expression, Peaceful Assembly

December 19, 2023 News Release

Tunisia: Cybercrime Decree Used Against Critics

First Two Prison Sentences Under Tool Used to Stifle Free Speech

The Tunisian Journalists Union (SNJT) protests against the sentencing of journalist Khalifa Guesmi to five years in prison in Tunis, Tunisia, May 18, 2023.

December 15, 2023 News Release

Hong Kong: Free Pro-Democracy Publisher Jimmy Lai

Newspaper Founder’s National Security Trial a Travesty of Justice

In this December. 12, 2020, file photo, Jimmy Lai, center, who founded the pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is escorted by Correctional Services officers to get on a prison van before appearing in a court.

November 28, 2023 Dispatches

Draft Security Law Targets Civil Society and Journalists in Hungary

EU Should Take Legal Action, Parliament Should Scrap Bill

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, delivers his address on the opening day of the parliament's autumn session

November 22, 2023 News Release

Azerbaijan: Crackdown on Independent Media

Ulvi Hasanli, Sevinc Vagifgizi, Mahammad Kekalov Face Spurious Charges

Sevinc Vagifgizi and Ulvi Hasanli (undated)

November 21, 2023 Statement

Turkmenistan: Journalist Prevented from Travelling Abroad

Soltan Achilova Planned to Travel to Geneva for Rights Award Ceremony, Meetings

November 19, 2023 News Release

China: Allow Commemorations of ‘White Paper’ Protests

Free Detained Protesters; Lift Censorship on First Anniversary Events

Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing

November 17, 2023 Dispatches

Five Anti-War Price Tags, Seven Years in Russian Prison

Stark Conclusion to Aleksandra Skochilenko’s “Military Fakes” Trial

Sasha Skochilenko stands behind bars in the court room at the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, November 16, 2023.

November 16, 2023 News Release

Bangladesh: UN Rights Review Amid Violent Crackdown

Government should Heed Member State Recommendations

Police confront Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists gathered in front of the party's central office in Dhaka.

November 15, 2023 News Release

Uzbekistan: Take Action on Rights Abuses Raised at UN Review

Address Restrictions on Independent Media, Civil Society, LGBT Rights

Delegates sit at the opening of the 41th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 24, 2019.

November 8, 2023 News Release

Kazakhstan: Government Critic on Trial for ’Extremism’

Free Activist; Drop Bogus Charges; Uphold Rights to Expression, Assembly

Marat Zhylanbaev, leader of the unregistered opposition party “Alga, Kazakhstan!” at his preliminary hearing in Astana, Kazakhstan on October 30, 2023.

November 8, 2023 News Release

Burkina Faso: Emergency Law Targets Dissidents

Junta Using Conscription to Punish Critics

Burkina Faso soldiers patrol aboard a pickup truck on the road from Dori to the Goudebo refugee camp, on February 3, 2020.

November 7, 2023 Statement

Tunisia: Reject Bill Dismantling Civil Society

Arbitrary Restrictions; Excessive Government Control

A general view of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People in Tunis, Tunisia, May 2016.

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