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Banned Books Week 2019
Oleg Sentsov
RUSSIA - FILMMAKER & ESSAYIST SENTENCED TO 20 YEARS RELEASED Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian film director who was sentenced on August 25, 2015 to 20 years imprisonment for allegedly…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Maria Ressa
PHILIPPINES - EXECUTIVE EDITOR OF ONLINE NEWS AGENCY REPEATEDLY DETAINED & FACING YEARS IN PRISON Maria Ressa, press freedom advocate, human rights defender, andexecutive editor of the online news outlet…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Journalists
MEXICO - 10 MURDERED IN 2019 SEVERAL IN DIRECT RELATION TO THEIR WORK Mexico: Who will speak out? Death is an occupational hazard for journalists in Mexico, where more than…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Mustafa al-Kharouf
ISRAEL / OCCUPIED TERRITORIES - PHOTOJOURNALIST STATELESS - ARBITRARILY DETAINED - FACING DEPORTATION & FAMILY SEPARATION DESPITE 20 YEAR RESIDENCY Mustafa al-Kharouf, a 32-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, is at imminent risk…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Sanaz Alahyari & Amirhossein Mohammadifar
IRAN - DETAINED - FACING CHARGES PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE Sanaz Alahyari and her husband, Amirhossein Mohammadifar, are staff members of Gam, an online magazine that reports on social justice issues,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Deported Mother Allowed to Return to Family (Argentina: UA 39.19)
Vanessa Gómez Cueva, a Peruvian mother of three who was deported seven months ago from Argentina with her 2-year-old son and forced to leave her other two children behind, received…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Writer Released on Bail, Still at Risk of Jail (Sri Lanka: UA 105.19)
Shakthika Sathkumara, an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, was arrested on 1 April 2019 for writing a short story and sharing it on his Facebook profile. While he was released on…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Hankezi Zikeli
AUNT OF US-BASED UYGHUR JOURNALIST GULCHEHRA HOJA - CHINA AT RISK OF TORTURE Gulchehra Hoja is one of the most well-known Uyghur journalists,having been a star of a children’s program…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Labor & Migrant Worker Rights
DETAINED SINCE MARCH 2017 Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing are editors of “New Generation” (xinshengdai), a website on monitoring and reporting the situation of rural migrant workers in China. New…
Press Release
Years of Impunity for Xenophobic Crimes Driving the Latest Attacks in South Africa
The ongoing and escalating attacks against refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, and looting of foreign owned shops in South Africa, is a direct consequence of years of impunity and failures…
Press Release
Discriminatory Measures Undermine Palestinian Representation in Knesset
Palestinians elected to Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, are being targeted by discriminatory regulations and legislation that undermine their ability to represent and defend the rights of the Palestinian minority population…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Prominent Bedouin Leader Released (Israel/OPT: UA 4.19)
On 22 July 2019, 70-year-old human rights defender and prominent Bedouin leader Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi was released from Maasiyahu Prison, in the city of Ramle in central Israel.…