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U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during a National Economic Council meeting in the Oval Office at the White House March 24, 2017 in Washington, D.C.

27th April 2017
100 Threats to Human Rights – and How We’re Fighting Back

Demonstrators clash with riot police during a march against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on April 19, 2017.
Venezuelans took to the streets Wednesday for massive demonstrations for and against President Nicolas Maduro, whose push to tighten his grip on power has triggered deadly unrest that has escalated the country's political and economic crisis. / AFP PHOTO / CARLOS BECERRA (Photo credit should read CARLOS BECERRA/AFP/Getty Images)

24th April 2017
The art of surviving a Venezuela on the brink

On 7 April 2017, the informal Romani settlement of Gianturco was forcibly evicted by local authorities in Naples, southern Italy. The community counted around 1,300 Romanian Roma, however many of them left the settlement in the days before the eviction due to repeated harrasment by authorities, feared how the eviction would be carried out and also were threatened with homelessness by authorities. On the day of the eviction, around 200/300 families were in the settlement. Around 130 of them were moved to a new segregated camp in Via del Riposo - where the previous camp was burnt down by unknown in 2011. Few families were offered as alternative a reception centre described " as a prison" by Roma themselves. Many others moved in temporarily with friends and related around Naples and outside, while others moved into existent informal settlements where they fear being forcibly evicted again. Few families are sleeping rough in their cars.

18th April 2017
Italy – A home destroyed: the eviction of Gianturco

Mexico-US Line at the Border of Tijuana and San Diego. Mexico´s side.

6th April 2017
USA-Mexico border: ‘We witnessed the eerie calm before the storm’

Manor Fouad Jasem receives treatment for a gunshot wound from the ongoing fighting between the Islamic State and Iraqi federal forces at al-Zahra’ Medical Clinic in eastern Mosul. March 13, 2017.

3rd April 2017
Bombed in Their Homes, Civilians in Mosul Blame Reckless Coalition Forces

H8JCMW Demonstrators chant in protest against the election of Republican Donald Trump as President of the United States, at the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. November12, 2016. REUTERS/David Becker TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

27th March 2017
Time for humankind to create a new reality

A little girl plays with a doll as migrants and refugees wait to disembark in the port of Messina following a rescue operation at sea by the Italian Coast Guard ship "Diciotti" on March 17, 2016 in Sicily.
More than 2,400 migrants and three corpses have been recovered from people smugglers' boats off Libya Italy's coastguard said on March 16, 2016. After several quiet weeks, the figures represent a pick-up in the flow of migrants attempting to reach Italy via Libya, a route through which around 330,000 people have made it to Europe since the start of 2014. / AFP / GIOVANNI ISOLINO (Photo credit should read GIOVANNI ISOLINO/AFP/Getty Images)

16th March 2017
The human cost of European hypocrisy on Libya

Dr Ali al-Ekri

13th March 2017
Good news! Dr Ali al-‘Ekri is free

Muhammad Bekzhanov, a journalist, the-editor-in-chief of the banned Erk political opposition party newspaper, and a brother of Muhammad Salih, the exiled leader of Erk, was sentenced by Tashkent City Court in August 1999 to 15 years in prison, after a trial which fell far short of international standards.

During his trial in August 1999 Muhammad Bekzhanov issued a statement together with his five co-defendants, alleging that they had been tortured in pre-trial detention in order to force them to confess to fabricated charges and implicate Muhammad Salih, the exiled leader of Erk. He alleged, among other things, that he had been beaten with rubber truncheons and plastic bottles filled with water, suffocated, and given electric shocks. After the accused had given his testimony the trial judge gave the defence just 40 minutes in which to present their case. The trial was then adjourned for six days after which the verdict was announced. The court did not take any of Muhammad Bekzhanov’s allegations of forced confessions into account when reaching its verdict and, on 18 August 1999, sentenced him to 15 years in prison for his alleged participation in the February bombings. Among other things, the court found him guilty of participating in an attempt upon the life of the president, attempting to overthrow the constitutional order, establishing an illegal public association or religious organization, and illegally crossing the border to leave and enter Uzbekistan.

He was due to have been released in February 2012 after nearly 13 years in detention but a court in the town of Kasan, close to the prison colony where he is serving his sentence, sentenced him to another four years and eight months in prison on 24 January 2012 for allegedly violating prison rules. Family members reported that Muhammad Bekzhanov told the court that he had not infringed a single prison rule in 13 years and that he thought it strange that he should start breaking rules just weeks before his release. An appeal court upheld the additional sentence on 15 March 2012. Muhammad Bekzhanov’s family have said that his health has declined sharply in the last couple of years and that he is not receiving necessary medical attention.

3rd March 2017
Uzbekistan: Muhammad Bekzhanov is freed after 17 years in prison

PoC in Russia

3rd March 2017
Prisoner of conscience, Ildar Dadin has been freed!

This photo taken on October 4, 2016 shows Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gesturing as he delivers a speech during a "Talk to the Troops" visit to army personnel in Manila.
Duterte's popularity has soared during his first three months in office, an independent survey showed on October 6, in an apparent endorsement by Filipinos of his brutal crime crackdown. / AFP / TED ALJIBE (Photo credit should read TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images)

28th February 2017
Time for ASEAN to Take Human Rights Seriously

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27th February 2017
The human rights violators’ playbook: how to respond to an Amnesty International report

Itai Dzamara, Zimbabwean journalist, peaceful pro-democracy activist and leader of the protest group Occupy Africa Unity Square, disappeared on 9 March 2015 in Harare.

24th February 2017
Lifetime Achievements: Paying Tribute to 4 Human Rights Heroes

Street in the Rivera Hernandez, one of the most dangerous areas in Honduras, one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Several gangs control the area and leave locals with no options but to flee.

20th February 2017
Central American carnage – how Trump’s border wall would lock refugees in a life of violence and fear

The picture at the border between Mexico and Guatemala. A boy is looking through the fence.

15th February 2017
How President Trump’s spat with Mexico will crush Central American refugees

US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, on January 24, 2017.
US President Donald Trump signed executive orders January 24, 2017 reviving the construction of two controversial oil pipelines, but said the projects would be subject to renegotiation. Trump gave an amber light to the Keystone XL pipeline -- which would carry crude from Canada to US refineries on the Gulf Coast -- and an equally controversial pipeline crossing in North Dakota.
/ AFP / NICHOLAS KAMM (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)

13th February 2017
Donald Trump Is Alienating His Most Valuable Allies

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