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Sri Lanka: Hejaaz Hizbullah held in prolonged pre-trial detention for anti-hate speech work (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsBACKGROUND On 8 July 2021, I wrote a letter with seven other UN Human Rights experts regarding the continued detention…
Golden opportunity for EU to take global lead on human rights in business (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsGENEVA (6 September 2021) – The European Union has a chance to set an example for the entire world by…
Libya: Human Rights Defender abducted, possibly disappeared by State security forces (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsBACKGROUND On 2 July 2021, I wrote a joint communication together with the UN experts on enforced disappearances and the…
Russia: Overturn the conviction of Semyon Simonov and stop criminalising human rights defenders for legitimate work (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsGENEVA (31 August 2021) – Russia must overturn the conviction of human rights defender Semyon Simonov and must stop using…
Detention, torture and ill-treatment of journalist in Russia-annexed Crimea (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsPhoto: Family archive via RFE/RL BACKGROUND On 9 June 2021, I wrote a letter to the Government of the Russian…
Kenya: Maasai Human Rights Defenders criminalised for defence of ancestral land in Kedong Valley (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsBACKGROUND On 25 June 2021, I sent two letters, jointly with other mandate holders, to the Government of Kenya as…
UAE: Syrian Human Rights Defender at risk of long term detention, reports of torture (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsBACKGROUND On 25 June 2021, I wrote a letter to the government of the United Arab Emirates expressing concern at…
Cambodia: UN experts condemn conviction of trade union leader, systematic crackdown on human rights defenders (press release)
Official Letters and StatementsGENEVA (24 August 2021) – UN human rights experts have sharply criticised Cambodian authorities over the conviction of prominent human…
Egypt: Systematic use of counter-terrorism and criminal law to sanction Human Rights Defenders (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsBACKGROUND On 16 June 2021, I wrote a joint communication to the Government of Egypt on the arbitrary detention of…
Hostigamientos, robos y amenazas de muerte en contra de la defensora Francia Nelly Henao Agudelo relacionados con la búsqueda de justicia en el caso de su hijo (comunicación conjunta)
Official Letters and StatementsFoto: CMDPDH ANTECEDENTES El 14 de julio de 2021, escribí al Gobierno de México sobre los hostigamientos, allanamientos, robos y…
Eritrea: UN experts demand release of human rights defender held 20 years without charge (Press Release)
Official Letters and StatementsGENEVA (18 August 2021) ̶ UN experts today demanded the release of journalist and human rights defender Dawit Isaak, imprisoned…
Eritrea: near 20 year incommunicado detention of Dawit Isaak (joint communication)
Official Letters and StatementsOn 9 June 2021, I wrote a communication to the Government of Eritrea on the almost 20 year long detention…