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Description of the situation The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary arrest and detention of Messrs. Bashir Suleymanli and Mammad Alpay, two prominent human rights defenders. Mr ...
Amnesty International and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights on Tuesday called on Egyptian authorities to urgently halt the arbitrary arrests, enforced disappearances, and deportations ...
The Tunisian government has been increasingly using arbitrary arrests to suppress dissent, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report has found. The organisation documented 22 cases where people were ...
Since the beginning of January, security forces linked to the army arbitrarily arrested Duha Shuaib, a former third-year student from Neelain University. Originally from Tuti Island in the heart of ...
A new report reveals how Tunisia is using arbitrary arrests and harsh prosecutions to silence lawyers, journalists, and opposition voices, robbing Tunisians of hard-won civil liberties. This statement ...
for sanctioning/causing an invalid administrative arrest against Duterte, as well as usurpation of judicial functions. Marbil, she said, may be liable for arbitrary detention under the Revised ...
A military operation by Pakistani forces in Mastung, Balochistan, has sparked protests over home raids, arbitrary arrests, and enforced disappearances, with demonstrators demanding the safe return ...
The National Human Rights Commission has called for an end to arbitrary arrests, intimidation and harassment of persons, particularly journalists, activists and human rights defenders in by law ...
The rights group said in its annual report on Indonesia that public protests “were met with excessive and unnecessary force and arbitrary arrests,” including in August when thousands of ...
In 2018, the European Court of Human Rights found that prosecutions deriving from the 2014 investigations “revealed a troubling pattern of arbitrary arrest and detention of government critics ...