TAIWAN: The EU condemns the recent execution of a convict of double homicide HRWF (23.01.2025) – On 16 January, Huang Lin-kai was executed at the Taipei Detention Center. He was convicted for the double murder of his former girlfriend and her mother. The...
RUSSIA: Repressions in Russia in 2024, a review of OVD-Info Introduction OVD (16.01.2025) – The year 2024 for Russian civil society, as well as the two previous years, was marked by the unrelying war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Political...
Religious issues and persecution – Bimonthly Digest October 01-15 15.10.2024 – Forced labor for faith in Jehovah God. JW – On October 10, 2024, the Oryol Regional Court denied the appeal of Jehovah’s Witness against the verdict of the court of first...
IRAQ: A law that can ‘legalize pedophilia’ is on the table Critics say that the amendment, would allow legal child marriage and harm women’s status. The Jerusalem Post (05.08.2024) – A proposed amendment to Iraq’s Personal Status Law is causing controversy,...
UNITED NATIONS: Uzbek atrocity apologist elected to UN Human Rights Committee “Did no-one check his CV?” By Aaron Rhodes for Human Rights Without Frontiers HRWF (08.06.2024) – Akmal Saidov, who heads the Uzbek National Center for Human Rights and...
Belarus jails blogger Aliaksandr Ignatsiuk for 6 years on defamation, extortion charges CPJ (19.04.2024) —Belarusian authorities must immediately release journalist Aliaksandr Ignatsiuk, who was sentenced to six years imprisonment, and ensure that no members of the...