News Nov 15, 2017 Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab to face trial over Nile comments Jokes about the Nile are as old as the river itself, but one Egyptian pop singer has been told she will stand trial after joking about disease in the famous waterway.
News Nov 14, 2017 Jesus won’t save you — President Xi Jinping will, Chinese Christians told (The Washington Post) – Jesus Christ won’t drag you out of poverty or cure your illnesses, but the Chinese Communist Party will, so take down those pictures of Christ and put up a nice photograph of President Xi Jinping.
News Nov 14, 2017 ‘When they began slaughtering us we ran for our lives’: Rohingya trapped inside Myanmar It’s the sound of the wailing that is most haunting. It’s a deep, soulful, pit-of-your-being, howling hurt. And it follows us as we’re swept along by this moving, wretched mass of humanity.
News Nov 14, 2017 HRF mourns the death of Chinese blogger Yang Tongyan Writer and blogger Yang Tongyan , named after Yang Tianshui , a leading figure in the democratic opposition in China, died on Tuesday when he had almost completed a 12-year sentence for “subversion” in Nanjing Prison (Jiangsu Province, Southeast).
News Nov 14, 2017 An imprisoned West African graphic novelist received the Courage in Cartooning award (The Washington Post) – The cartoonist Ramón Esono Ebalé sits imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea for his art. Over the weekend, his journalistic brethren formally helped spotlight his case.
News Nov 14, 2017 Gobierno de Venezuela anuncia que controlará las redes sociales con gran severidad El Nuevo Herald (CARACAS) — El gobierno del presidente Nicolás Maduro anunció el lunes que el organismo regulador del sector de telecomunicaciones controlará las redes sociales con una severidad semejante a la que ha mostrado desde hace casi dos décadas con las estaciones de radio y televisión del país.
News Nov 13, 2017 Holding chess championship in Saudi Arabia is a ‘horrible’ move, top players say (The Telegraph) – A raft of top players have now revealed they will boycott the blitz and rapid event, one of the most exciting in the chess calendar, over concerns about safety and human rights in the ultra-conservative regime.
News Nov 13, 2017 We’re Not Done Yet, Hague Court Tells Burundi’s Leaders When Burundi became the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court less than two weeks ago, its leaders thought they had successfully avoided an inquiry into egregious crimes…
Press Release Nov 13, 2017 Bahrain Dissolves Opposition Group; Escalates Crackdown on Dissidents NEW YORK (November 13, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the ongoing crackdown against Bahrain’s opposition voices.
Press Release Nov 10, 2017 HRF to President Trump: Denounce Extrajudicial Killings in Philippines NEW YORK (November 10, 2017) — In an open letter sent on November 10, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) and eleven other international organizations urge U.S. President Donald Trump to denounce the gross human rights abuses that have taken place in the Philippines since the launch of President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent anti-drug campaign.
News Nov 9, 2017 Venezuela Constituent Assembly Cracks Down On Media (NPR) – The Assembly, created by Maduro in July and mainly composed of his supporters, bans any message transmitted through radio, television or social media that instigates hate …
News Nov 9, 2017 No school, no salary: the children tricked into domestic servitude in Zanzibar For months, Rose was forced to work from sunrise to sunset, never paid and beaten for the smallest infraction. Now, in a shelter for trafficking victims, hidden away down a backstreet on the outskirts of Zanzibar City, the 13-year old is shaking as she recounts what it was like being a child domestic worker for a wealthy family.
News Nov 9, 2017 U.N. watchdog tells Congo to hold election, clean up human rights (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Committee on Thursday gave Democratic Republic of Congo a year to report on actions it has taken to hold free and fair elections and clean up its rights record.
News Nov 8, 2017 Art of dissent: Protesting Russia’s Putin with Pussy Riot Their goal is for people to experience the brutality and oppression of Putin’s Russia. The play will be featured at the Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea neighborhood from November 14 to December 24.
News Nov 7, 2017 Robert Mugabe sacks vice-president to clear path to power for wife (The Guardian) – Robert Mugabe has fired his powerful vice-president, clearing the way for his wife, Grace, to succeed him as leader of Zimbabwe.
News Nov 7, 2017 10 North Koreans Detained in China; ‘We Fear the Worst,’ Activist Says SEOUL, South Korea — Ten North Koreans, including a 3-year-old boy and his mother, have been arrested in China and face being deported to their totalitarian homeland, a rights activist in South Korea said on Tuesday.
News Nov 7, 2017 Their Sons Sought a More Democratic Hong Kong, and Got Prison (The New York Times) – In August, a court in Hong Kong sentenced three young pro-democracy activists to six to eight months in prison, making them what some have called the first political prisoners in the former British colony since its return to Chinese rule two decades ago.
News Nov 7, 2017 More Than a Million People in South Sudan Are on the Brink of Starvation Humanitarian organizations blame the worsening situation on South Sudan’s continuing conflict, which is nearing its fifth year and has killed more than 50,000 people.
News Nov 6, 2021 ‘We Are Everywhere’: How Ethiopia Became a Land of Prying Eyes (The New York Times) – When he is away from his fields, Takele Alene, a farmer in northern Ethiopia, spends a lot of his time prying into the personal and political affairs of his neighbors.
News Nov 6, 2017 HRF Demands Release of American Journalist in Zimbabwe O’Donovan was arrested on November 3 in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, for allegedly tweeting — almost a month ago — that President Robert Mugabe was a “very selfish and sick man,” along with a photo accusing him of using a catheter.
