Press Release May 27, 2020 Remembering Shady Habash: A Victim of Egypt’s Horrific Prison Conditions On May 1, 2020, Egyptian photographer and filmmaker Shady Habash, died in Egypt’s Tora Prison, at age 24. He had spent more than two years illegally detained for producing Egyptian…
News May 22, 2020 Op-Ed: The Other Hong Kong — Will China’s Democratic Enclave Become Just Like The Mainland? This op-ed was published by CNN Opinion on May 22, 2020. By Joy Park, HRF’s legal counsel for Asia For years, even as China has applied increasing pressure on Hong…
News May 21, 2020 Op-Ed: Premier League Cannot Risk Turning A Blind Eye Over Newcastle Takeover Originally published by The Independent on May 21, 2020. The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world, with a cumulative global audience of 3.2 billion people. Some of…
Press Release May 19, 2020 Burundi Elections Proceed Despite Coronavirus Outbreak Burundi’s regime has decided to proceed with municipal, legislative, and presidential elections tomorrow, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The situation is tense, as concerns about post-election violence and the unchecked spread…
News May 15, 2020 Op-Ed: Pro-Democracy Legislators in Hong Kong Need International Support The CCP is taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis to execute its vision of completely stripping Hong Kong of its remaining freedoms.
Blog Post Apr 27, 2020 Repression and Persecution Under Tajikistan’s Authoritarian Regime By HRF’s Center for Law & Democracy Last month, voters in Tajikistan took to the polls to elect their new Assembly of Representatives.
News Apr 25, 2020 Response to Associated Press from Garry Kasparov On April 24, in response to HRF’s letter to the Premier League regarding the impending purchase of Newcastle United, AP global sports reporter Rob Harris asked Garry Kasparov to expand…
Press Release Apr 23, 2020 HRF to Premier League: Reject Saudi Takeover of Newcastle United The Newcastle United Football Club is up for impending purchase by a consortium of buyers which includes Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF).
Press Release Apr 20, 2020 Oslo Freedom Forum Speakers Ji Seong-ho and Thae Kumin Elected to South Korea’s National Assembly NEW YORK – The voters of South Korea have elected two North Korean defectors to the country’s National Assembly.
Press Release Mar 18, 2020 Russia’s latest amendments to its Constitution are anything but constitutional NEW YORK – On Monday, Russia’s Putin-controlled Constitutional Court approved proposed constitutional amendments to reset the count on presidential term limits to zero.
Blog Post Mar 12, 2020 Using fashion as silent protest in North Korea From wearing lipstick to putting on a pair of jeans, fashion has become a political statement for North Koreans.
News Mar 2, 2020 Dictatorships Are Making the Coronavirus Outbreak Worse (Wired) China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes have concealed information and exacerbated the spread of the disease.
Press Release Jan 28, 2020 HRF Mourns The Passing Of Lina Ben Mhenni NEW YORK – (Jan. 28, 2020) The Human Rights Foundation is deeply saddened by the passing of Tunisian activist, journalist, and educator Lina Ben Mhenni, after a long battle with a chronic illness.
Press Release Dec 4, 2019 Iran’s Leaders Must be Held Accountable For Killings of Hundreds of Dissidents NEW YORK – The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the Iranian regime’s ongoing wave of deadly violence against dissidents and calls for an independent international investigation into these crimes.
Press Release Nov 23, 2019 In memory of Raed Fares, 1972-2018 Today, we honor Raed Fares, a brave Syrian activist and member of the Human Rights Foundation family who lost his life one year ago today.
Press Release Nov 21, 2019 Bolivia’s Government Must Exercise Maximum Restraint in the Use of Force, and Call for Elections Immediately The situation has grown increasingly dangerous as Morales’ supporters attempted to blow up the Senkata gas plant that would have would have killed up to 10,000 people in the city of El Alto on Nov. 19, they have vowed to attempt to do it again.
Press Release Nov 12, 2019 Líder autoritario de Bolivia renuncia luego de protestas masivas motivadas por elección fraudulenta NUEVA YORK (11 de noviembre de 2019) – Evo Morales renunció a la presidencia de Bolivia el día de ayer, luego de tres semanas de protestas masivas que comenzaron luego de que evidencias de un fraude electoral salieran a la luz.
Press Release Nov 12, 2019 Bolivia’s authoritarian leader resigns after widespread protests triggered by election fraud NEW YORK (Nov. 11, 2019) – Evo Morales resigned from the Bolivian presidency yesterday, following three weeks of massive peaceful protests triggered by overwhelming evidence of fraud.
Op-Ed Oct 18, 2019 Why was a Nobel Prize awarded to a man who celebrated a war criminal? When the Nobel Committee asked the public on Twitter if they had read the works of the Austrian writer Peter Handke, one of the winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize in literature, a Bosnian man, Emir Suljagic, answered back: “No, we were busy looking for our families and friends buried in mass graves which he denied existed.”
Press Release Oct 15, 2019 HRF opposes the election of human rights abusers to the UN’s Human Rights Council NEW YORK – This week, the U.N. General Assembly will vote to elect 14 countries to the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC).
