Urgent Actions
India: Arrested theatre activists at risk of torture
Theatre activists Sheetal Sathe and Sachin Mali were arrested on 2 April 2013 on various charges, including criminal conspiracy and being part of a banned organization. They are being held in Mumbai, India and are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
Read more...Maintain Gender Studies at the University of Calabria
The University of Calabria (a Southern region of Italy) has decided to close down the course of Gender Studies taught by Laura Corradi, the only course of its kind taught at this university.
Read more...Sudanese Refugees in Syria Facing Rape, Torture and Death
On March 29th, 2013, Yahya Ahmed Salih,45 years old and father of tow is a refugee from Darfur in Syria, according to witnesses he was kidnapped on his way to work by Syrian army in Ashrfiat Alwdi, in Damascus, they took him to Wadi Borda and killed him, his body was found there 4 days later.
Read more...Pakistan: Journalist Sikander Ali Bhutto sentenced to death
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Pakistan.
Read more...Cambodia: Refusal by the Supreme Court to grant bail to Ms. Yorm Bopha
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), has received new information and requests your urgent intervention in the following situation inCambodia.
Read more...Pakistan: Assassination of Ms. Perveen Rehman
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Pakistan.
Read more...Nazlie Bala, a human rights defender in Kosovo, was attacked outside her apartment on 27 March
She had recently received death threats after publicly supporting a law that would provide survivors of war crimes of sexual violence with compensation and rehabilitation. Amnesty International is calling for her protection.
Read more...Kosovo – Human rights defender Ms Nazlie Bala attacked and severely beaten
On 27 March 2013, Kosovan human rights defender Ms Nazlie Bala was attacked upon entering her apartment building and severely beaten.
Read more...Venezuela: Venezuelan cartoonist threatened: Rayma Suprani
Rayma Suprani, cartoonist and journalist with independent newspaper El Universal, began receiving threats on 18 March.
Read more...Nepal: Intimidation and Police Harassment of Occupy Baluwatar movement
Several sit-in protests recently held by the Occupy Baluwatar movement in front of the Prime Minister's residence in Baluwatar, Kathmandu, have been disrupted by police who also arrested several movement members
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