News Nov 6, 2017 HRF to Cuba: Explain Disappearance of Human Rights Activists “On October 23, Cuban activists Robert Jiménez Gutiérrez and César Ivan Mendoza Regal were supposed to travel to the United States from Havana. Family and friends denounced that their whereabouts remain unknown ever since…”
News Nov 6, 2017 The Saudi crown prince just made a very risky power play Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says he’s cracking down on corruption. But the sweeping arrests of cabinet ministers and senior princes Saturday night looked to many astonished Arab observers like a bold but risky consolidation of power.
News Nov 3, 2017 Jailed Belarusian Opposition Leader Statkevich Gets Additional 10 Days In Prison (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty) – Incarcerated Belarusian opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mikalay Statkevich had his arrest prolonged to 10 more days, his wife says.
News Nov 3, 2017 Fate of Stateless Rohingya Muslims Is in Antagonistic Hands (The New York Times) — A skinny finger of water separates Bangladesh from Myanmar, and the other night a group of men sat on the Bangladeshi side, peering into the darkness, wondering what was left for them.
News Nov 2, 2017 Vietnam dissident’s daughter calls on Melania Trump for help (Reuters) – The 10-year-old daughter of a jailed Vietnamese blogger, “Mother Mushroom”, has appealed to U.S. First Lady Melania Trump to help win her mother’s release ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to Vietnam next month.
News Nov 1, 2017 28 killed in rare protests in Eritrea, opposition group says ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — At least 28 people have been killed in rare protests in the capital of Eritrea, one of the world’s most reclusive nations, an official with the largest Eritrean opposition group said Wednesday.
News Nov 1, 2017 Eritrea’s Asmara city hit by rare student protest Rare protests broke out in Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, with reports of shooting in the city on Tuesday. Security forces responded by firing shots to disperse protesters, unverified video footage widely circulated on social media shows.
News Nov 1, 2017 Defector: Information, not force, can bring change in North Korea The highest-level North Korean defector in two decades says America should bring change peacefully by challenging the totalitarian regime’s grip on information rather than resorting to military action.
Press Release Nov 1, 2017 Elderly couple accuse Immigration of ineptitude Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse told us during his visit to our office on February 24, 2017 that Immigration New Zealand (INZ) issues more than one million visas of various types.
News Oct 31, 2017 Putin Critic Who Fought Pro-Russia Rebels Shot Dead in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine — A prominent couple who were fierce critics of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and who narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in June was attacked again on Monday.
News Oct 31, 2017 Cambodia Is Becoming ‘Openly Authoritarian’ in Its Crackdown on Opposition The leader of Cambodia’s political opposition sits in solitary confinement in Correctional Center 3, a maximum-security prison near the Vietnamese border.
News Oct 31, 2017 HRF in the News — September and October highlights Every month, through publications, interviews, and coverage, we help put a bigger spotlight on some of the world’s most effective and important dissidents, and we promote ideas on how best to challenge corruption and repression.
Press Release Oct 30, 2017 HRF to Spain and U.S.: Bring Venezuelan Dictatorship Cronies to Justice The four individuals were detained last Thursday in Madrid, Spain’s capital, during a joint operation carried out by the Civil Guard and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI).
News Oct 30, 2017 Latest on Turkmenistan’s Delusional Dictator Turkmenistan’s dictatorial president has already turned his hand to DJing, weights training, writing books and equestrianism, and can now add top-level golfing ability to his enviable skills – at least according to state television.
News Oct 27, 2017 UN finds Syrian regime responsible for gas attack on rebel-held town Medical staff at Damascus Countryside specialised hospital hold placards condemning a suspected chemical weapons attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun.
News Oct 27, 2017 ‘Baffled’ by Rohingya Stance, U.N. Official Scolds Aung San Suu Kyi The United Nations investigator of human rights abuses in Myanmar expressed deep disappointment Thursday at what she described as an indifferent response by the country’s Nobel laureate leader to the violence raging against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
News Oct 27, 2017 Son of Equatorial Guinea’s president is convicted of corruption in France Teodorin Obiang, the son of Equatorial Guinea’s president, has been given a three-year suspended jail term by a French court for plundering public money from his oil-rich but impoverished west African state to fund a jet-set lifestyle in Paris.
News Oct 26, 2017 HRF Condemns Kenya’s Election Rerun After Kenya’s Supreme Court overturned the August election, we hoped against hope that the rule of law had returned to Kenya.
News Oct 26, 2017 Parliament awards Sakharov Prize 2017 to Democratic Opposition in Venezuela “The Prize is for all Venezuelans in the world,” said Parliament President Antonio Tajani while awarding the prize. The President noted that the human rights situation in Venezuela was deteriorating and called for a “return to free elections with the participation of all so that the Venezuelan people can decide their future”.
