HRNJ-Uganda

On 9 December 2016, Zehra Doğan, was freed from Mardin Women’s Prison where she had been held since July, charged…

CJFE is concerned that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has backtracked on its promise to reveal to a Senate…

Before this latest wave of harassment, other women’s rights activists, including several journalists, had been summoned and questioned since March….

Reporter Soe Moe Tun, who was murdered in Monywa, Burma, had recently covered the proliferation of illegal karaoke bars in…

This is the first time that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention – or any other UN mechanism receiving…

53 NGOs urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Expression and on…

In the cities of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, military and police forces were heavily deployed and fired gunshots in some neighborhoods…

Muhammad Bekjanov – an Uzbek journalist who tried to initiate debate on taboo subjects such as the use of forced…

After Deyda Hydara’s murder in 2004, the state opened an investigation which was closed in less than a month. No…

On December 12, 42 year-old Algerian journalist and blogger Mohammad Tamalt was laid to rest in the capital Algiers. Tamalt…