News Oct 26, 2017 BBC appeals to UN over Iran’s crackdown on journalists The BBC’s director general has accused Iran of “unprecedented collective punishment” as the corporation appealed to the UN over crackdowns on Iranian employees of its London-based Persian service.
News Oct 26, 2017 Bahraini Appeals Court Confirms Dissolution of Wa’ad 26 October 2017 – Bahrain’s High Court of Appeals has today confirmed the asset seizure and dissolution of Wa’ad (also known as the National Democratic Action Society), the country’s largest secular, leftist opposition group.
News Oct 26, 2017 Analysis: The Political Impasse Over Syria’s Disappeared AFTER BEING TORTURED in a Syrian detention center, journalist and human rights activist Mazen Darwish was left for dead.
News Oct 25, 2017 After Four Years in Egypt Jail, Ibrahim Halawa is Home Arrested in August 2013 along with hundreds more, Ibrahim went on trial for an alleged role in violence during protests in Cairo—charges he, witnesses, and his lawyers, all denied. He is finally returning home after being acquitted.
News Oct 25, 2017 In China, a CreditKarma that factors in your political views… For now, technically, participating in China’s Citizen Scores is voluntary. But by 2020 it will be mandatory. The behaviour of every single citizen and legal person (which includes every company or other entity)in China will be rated and ranked, whether they like it or not.
News Oct 24, 2017 Myanmar Rohingya crisis: US withdraws military assistance The state department said it had also dropped travel waivers for Myanmar military officials, and was considering economic sanctions.
Press Release Oct 24, 2017 HRF to Cameroon: Release Activist Nasako Besingi; End Crackdown on Protesters NEW YORK (October 24, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns Cameroon’s authoritarian regime for arbitrarily arresting Cameroonian activist Nasako Besingi and for its attempts to stifle public discourse through protest suppression and internet shutdowns.
News Oct 24, 2017 Kenya’s top court to hear petition to postpone election Kenya’s Supreme Court plans to hear last-minute arguments that Thursday’s presidential election should be postponed because a free and fair vote cannot be guaranteed.
News Oct 24, 2017 Hong Kong Protest Leaders Are Freed on Bail to Pursue Appeal HONG KONG — The Hong Kong democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law were released from prison Tuesday after the city’s highest court granted them bail to appeal sentences for what their supporters called political prosecution by the government.
Press Release Oct 23, 2025 HRF Condemns WHO for Appointing Robert Mugabe as “Goodwill Ambassador” NEW YORK (October 22, 2017) — The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the decision by the World Health Organization (WHO) to name 93-year-old Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe a “Goodwill Ambassador.”
Press Release Oct 23, 2025 China Is Getting Better at Undermining Global Human Rights Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has managed to repeatedly steer the national conversation in all sorts of directions, from the merits of NFL protests to still-unproven allegations that his presidential campaign was wiretapped by the FBI.
News Oct 23, 2025 Russian radio journalist stabbed in neck at her Moscow office Tatyana Felgenhauer, the deputy editor of Ekho Moskvy radio station, was attacked on Monday lunchtime at the station’s studios in central Moscow.
Press Release Oct 23, 2017 It’s not so surprising WHO’s new director tried to make Robert Mugabe a goodwill ambassador The plan by World Health Organization (WHO) director-general to appoint Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador has backfired and been rescinded after an international outcry.
News Oct 20, 2025 Cuban Dissidents in Electoral Challenge as Castro Era Nears End Under Cuba’s one-party system, civic associations of individuals whose will to participate in the political life is legitimate from the standpoint of a democratic society, are considered and treated as illegal, and criminalized by the government with the official labels of “worms,” “scum,” “mercenaries,” “terrorists,” and “counter-revolutionaries.”
News Oct 19, 2025 U.N. Peacekeeping Chief Issues Warning on South Sudan The leader of United Nations’ peacekeeping operations offered a dire appraisal of South Sudan on Tuesday, saying the world’s youngest nation is sliding further into mayhem with no sign that its antagonists want peace.
News Oct 18, 2025 Kenya election commissioner flees days before new vote, saying it cannot be fair Kenya election commissioner flees days before new vote, saying it cannot be fair. One of Kenya’s top officials in charge of overseeing next week’s presidential election resigned Wednesday, fled the country and said the upcoming vote could not be fair.
Blog Post Oct 18, 2025 Today CCP opened its 19th Party Congress. We call for the release of Gao Zhisheng on this occasion. October 18th marks the beginning of China’s dictatorial Communist Party’s 19th Party Congress. On this occasion, HRF calls for the release of Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng.
News Oct 18, 2025 Why Uzbek Government Still Forces People To Pick Cotton Can you imagine living in a place where every year the government forces you to pick 50 kilos of cotton, every day, for 12 straight days, for just 5 cents a kilo? That’s the reality in Uzbekistan.
News Oct 17, 2017 Russian opposition leader’s fraud conviction arbitrary, Europe’s top rights court says STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s conviction for fraud in 2014 had been “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”..
Press Release Oct 17, 2025 OFF Speaker Pierre Claver Mbonimpa Awarded the Civil Courage Prize NEW YORK (October 17, 2017) — On October 18, Burundi’s most prominent human rights defender and 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) speaker, Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, will be awarded the Train Foundation’s 2017 Civil Courage Prize.
