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September 16, 2024 News Release

Iran: 2 Years On From Woman’s Death, No Change

Protests Following Mahsa Jina Amini’s Killing Brought New Crackdown

Iranian women, defying the mandatory hijab rule, take to the streets during nationwide protests that started after 22-year-old Mahsa (Jina) Amini died on September 16, 2022 in the custody of Tehran’s “Morality Police,” October 1, 2022.
September 11, 2024 Statement

Joint Statement Calling on UN Member States to Take Urgent Steps to Protect People Deprived of Their Liberty Across the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

A leaked photograph of the detention facility at the Sde Teiman military base shows a blindfolded man with his arms above his head. Interviewed healthcare workers described this image as punishment imposed by Israeli soldiers on Palestinian detainees if they speak or move.
September 3, 2024 Statement

Iran: Detainee Reportedly Tortured to Death

August 26, 2024 Report

Israel: Palestinian Healthcare Workers Tortured

ICC Prosecutor Should Investigate Attacks on Health Care, Detainee Abuses

A leaked photograph of the detention facility at the Sde Teiman military base shows a blindfolded man with his arms above his head. Interviewed healthcare workers described this image as punishment imposed by Israeli soldiers on Palestinian detainees if they speak or move.
July 23, 2024 News Release

Israel: Detainees Face Inhumane Treatment

Degrading Photos Circulated; Acts Amount to War Crimes

Sde Teiman, an army base in the Negev desert of Israel, on May 31, 2024.
July 8, 2024 Statement

Bahrain: Joint Letter on Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace as He Exceeds Three Years on Hunger Strike

Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace
April 29, 2024 Report

UAE: Unfair Trial of Rights Defenders

Authorities Should End Prolonged Solitary Confinement, Drop Charges

A man in a white gutra
April 25, 2024 News Release

Lebanon: Stepped-Up Repression of Syrians

Unlawful Deportations, Detention, Mistreatment

Syrian children gather between tents at a refugee camp in Saadnayel in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, June 13, 2023.
April 24, 2024 News Release

Iran: Popular Rapper Sentenced to Death for Dissent

Revolutionary Courts are Key Tool in Authorities’ Brutal Repression

Toumaj Salehi.
April 4, 2024 News Release

Bulgaria: Alleged Beating of Detained Saudi Activist

Investigate Abuse, Halt Unlawful Deportation

Abdulrahman al-Khalidi
April 3, 2024 Statement

Joint Statement Marking Human Rights Defender's 1,000-Day Hunger Strike

Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace
March 27, 2024 Statement

Iraq: Submission to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

98th Pre-Sessional Working Group

March 5, 2024 News Release

Malaysia: Abusive Detention of Migrants, Refugees

End Harassment, Torture of Immigration Detainees

Undocumented migrants walk in line while being detained during an immigration raid in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, July 1, 2022.
January 24, 2024 News Release

Iraq: Unlawful Mass Executions Resume

Adopt Death Penalty Moratorium, Judicial System Reforms

Suspected Islamic State members sit inside a small room in a prison south of Mosul, Iraq, July 18, 2017.
November 29, 2023 Commentary

Why Does Israel Have So Many Palestinians in Detention and Available to Swap?

Demonstrators gather during a rally in support of Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in the West Bank city of Ramallah April 17, 2017.

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