Publication Apr 17, 2018 Popular Tanzanian singer arrested in latest internet crackdown (Reuters) – Tanzania briefly detained two musicians, including one of the country’s most popular singers, after they posted video clips deemed obscene by the authorities, in the latest crackdown on…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 HONG KONG: Benny Tai’s Topsy-turvy Taiwan Journey He’s back! Benny Tai is making waves again. No sooner had the Occupy protest effect finally faded than Professor Benny Tai Yiu-ting (戴耀廷) sparked another important political controversy. This time…
Publication Apr 17, 2018 A Hopeful Moment for Uzbekistan (The New York Times) – It is a measure of how repressive Uzbekistan was under its first post-Soviet president, Islam Karimov, that the first, tentative steps by his successor to…
Publication Apr 16, 2018 First They Came for the Rohingya In recent months, international media coverage of Myanmar has focused on the plight of the Rohingya people in the west of the country. And for good reason: Since August 2017,…
Media Apr 16, 2018 How did voters register their protest in Egypt’s presidential election? (The Washington Post) – During the last week of March, Egyptians headed to the polls to award incumbent President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi a second term. The event was an election…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Ethiopia ends web blackout, raising hopes of reforms under new PM (Reuters) – Internet users in Ethiopia said on Monday the government appeared to have ended a three-month online blackout, raising hopes of a relaxation of restrictions after the arrival of…
Media Apr 16, 2018 Moscow Court Blocks Telegram (Bloomberg) – A Moscow court ordered telecommunications companies to block Telegram in Russia after the chat app refused to grant intelligence authorities access to users’ encrypted messages, in a blow…
Publication Apr 12, 2018 Two more activists jailed in Vietnam amid widening dissent crackdown HANOI (Reuters) – Courts in Vietnam handed prison sentences to two activists on Thursday, as the communist-ruled government widens a crackdown on dissent. A court in the northcentral province of…
Press Release Apr 12, 2018 Azerbaijan’s Aliyev Secures a Fourth Term in Rigged Elections NEW YORK (April 12, 2018) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the reelection of authoritarian president Ilham Aliyev in rigged elections held yesterday in Azerbaijan. The country’s Central Election…
Media Apr 11, 2018 Chinese Government Forces Residents To Install Surveillance App In Xinjiang, a part of western China that a Muslim minority population calls home, the government forces residents to install an Android app that scans devices for particular files. Now,…
Media Apr 11, 2018 Waleed Abulkhair sits in a Saudi jail for speaking out Waleed Abulkhair sits in a Saudi jail for speaking out By Javier El-Hage and Celine Assaf Boustani July 12, 2016 Javier El-Hage and Celine Assaf Boustani are lawyers at the…
Publication Apr 11, 2018 Sudan’s president orders release of all political prisoners (Associated Press) – Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners on Tuesday as part of national dialogue efforts, the state news agency said. […] The…
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…
