Press Release Apr 10, 2018 Vietnam activist sentenced to 13 years on subversion charges The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns the conviction of Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Van Tuc on the charge of “attempting to overthrow the government” for his participation in a pro-democracy…
Press Release Apr 10, 2018 Syria: Assad Gasses Innocent Civilians, Again NEW YORK (April 10, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons against the civilian population of the last rebel-held city, Douma,…
Media Apr 9, 2018 Let grieving wife of dead environmentalist leave Iran, son pleads The son of an Iranian-Canadian environmentalist who died in a Tehran prison under mysterious circumstances has called on Iran to allow his grieving mother to leave the country. Maryam Mombeini,…
Media Apr 9, 2018 UN Security Council to meet over chemical attack in Syria (CBS News) – The U.N. Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting Monday on Syria following a deadly apparent chemical weapons attack on Saturday. Rival meetings were originally…
Press Release Apr 6, 2018 New HRF Submission to UN Urges Action on Torture in Nigeria NEW YORK (April 6, 2018) — On March 29, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) submitted a brief for the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to consider during its Universal…
Publication Apr 6, 2018 Malaysian Leader Jump-Starts Elections, and Stacks the Odds (The New York Times) – Malaysia’s leader has said he will dissolve Parliament on Saturday, paving the way for the most contentious general elections in the country since it gained…
Media Apr 6, 2018 ‘We need to hit kleptocrats in their wallets’ Amid the recriminations over the Sergei Skprial poisoning, questions have been raised about how the UK government deals with Russia. Is expelling diplomats enough? Or would clamping down on the…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Sierra Leone’s Opposition Leader Is Sworn In as President (The New York Times) –A former military commander and coup leader who later went to graduate school in the United States and Britain was declared the winner of Sierra Leone’s…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Vietnam jails prominent human rights lawyer, five other activists HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnamese human rights lawyer and activist Nguyen Van Dai was jailed for 15 years on Thursday, his wife said, along with five other activists who were given…
Publication Apr 5, 2018 Philippines’ Duterte launched a foul-mouthed attack on UN human rights chief (Daily Times) – President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a foul-mouthed attack on the UN human rights chief, calling him “empty-headed” in a row over international criticism of the Philippine leader’s deadly drug war. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein,…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 China human rights: Wife marches for ‘vanished’ husband The wife of a detained Chinese lawyer has begun a march of more than 100km (62 miles) to try to find answers about his fate. Li Wenzu is walking from…
Media Apr 4, 2018 Egyptian website editor arrested for republishing article on election fraud (The Guardian) – Egyptian police raided the office of a news website late on Tuesday and arrested its editor-in-chief, according to three of its journalists, including its managing editor. The…
Publication Apr 4, 2018 Angola charges son of former dictator dos Santos with fraud (CNBC) – The son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of an account belonging to the central…
Media Apr 3, 2018 Ethiopia’s parliament swears in new prime minister (CNN) – Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiye Ahmed, was sworn in by parliament Monday. The country’s ruling coalition appointed Ahmed the new leader after weeks of uncertainty and protest.He succeeds…
Publication Apr 3, 2018 Boko Haram kills 15, wounds 83 in attack in northern Nigeria (CBS News) – Nigeria’s Boko Haram extremists attacked two villages on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Maiduguri late Sunday, killing at least 15 people, the military said Monday….
Media Apr 3, 2018 As Malaysia Moves to Ban ‘Fake News,’ Worries About Who Decides the Truth (The New York Times) – In highway billboards and radio announcements, the government of Malaysia is warning of a new enemy: “fake news.” On Monday, the lower house of Parliament…
Press Release Apr 2, 2018 HRF a la ONU: Danny Glover debe ser despojado de título de embajador de UNICEF
Publication Apr 2, 2018 As Authoritarianism Spreads, Uzbekistan Goes the Other Way (The New York Times)– Unraveling a police state is never easy, and just how fraught the process can be has been playing out in a basement cell in Uzbekistan, a…
Publication Apr 2, 2018 Egypt’s Sisi wins 97 percent in election with no real opposition (Reuters)–Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has been re-elected with 97 percent of votes, the same proportion that the former military commander secured four years ago for his first term but…
Publication Mar 30, 2018 Blackmail, prejudice and persecution: gay rights in Nigeria At a private party, held late at night in a small Lagos hotel far from any main road, men find solace in being openly gay. It is one of the…
