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November 21, 2023 Statement

Turkmenistan: Journalist Prevented from Travelling Abroad

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

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 6, 2023 Dispatches

Philippine Journalist Shot Dead Live on Air

Fourth Journalist Killed Since President Marcos Took Office

Juan Jumalon during his radio show, Calamba, Misamis Occidental, Philippines.
October 26, 2023 Statement

Niger: Authorities Putting Rights at Risk

Release Those Arbitrarily Held, Ensure Free Expression, Curtail Violence

Police officers on the sidelines of a march in support of the coup plotters in Niger’s capital, Niamey, July 30, 2023. © 2023 Djibo Issifou/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images
September 20, 2023 Commentary

How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything

A group of uniformed police with riot gear stand on the street
September 18, 2023 News Release

Algeria: Freedom of Association, Assembly Under Attack

UN Expert’s Visit an Opportunity to Press for Urgent Reforms, End Arbitrary Detentions

An Algerian demonstrator holds the Algerian national flag as he stage a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, Nov.29, 2019. 
September 18, 2023 Statement

HRW Contribution for the Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association’s Country Visit to Algeria

(September 16 - 26, 2023)

An Algerian demonstrator holds the Algerian national flag as he stage a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, Nov.29, 2019. 
September 14, 2023 News Release

Algeria: Halt Assault on Fundamental Freedoms

UN Expert’s Visit Amid Unrelenting Crackdown on Dissent

An Algerian demonstrator holds the Algerian national flag as he stage a protest against the government in Algiers, Algeria, Friday, Nov.29, 2019. 
September 1, 2023 Dispatches

Troubling Development for Free Speech in Chad

Authorities Suspend News Site

Djimet Wiché, the publishing director of Alwihda Info, in his studio in 2023.
August 30, 2023 News Release

Kyrgyzstan: Effort to Shut Down Independent News Outlet

Lawsuit Seeks To Punish‘Sharp Criticism of Government’

Protesters flash the light of their mobile phones during a rally for freedom of speech and freedom for political prisoners in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on November 25, 2022.
August 9, 2023 Statement

Azerbaijan: Arrest of Democracy Advocate

Release Gubad Ibadoghlu, renowned academic and activist

August 4, 2023 News Release

Russia: Grim New Sentence for Alexey Navalny

Opposition Politician and Associate Convicted on Outlandish Extremism Charges

 Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a TV screen as he appears in a video link provided by the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service from the colony in Melekhovo, Vladimir region, during a hearing at the Russian Supreme Court in Moscow, Russia,  June 22, 2023.
July 28, 2023 Dispatches

Russia Bans ‘TV Rain’ for Critical Reporting

Clampdown Shows Russians’ Need for Independent Broadcasting More than Ever

Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of TV-Rain, at their newsroom in Moscow
July 4, 2023 Statement

Journalist and Human Rights Lawyer Viciously Attacked in Chechnya

Hold to Account those Responsible for Beating Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov

Elena Milashina in a hospital in Grozny, Chechnya after being violently attack on July 4, 2023

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