Press Release Jul 26, 2017 Nicolas Cage Should Rescind Support of Kazakhstan’s Authoritarian Government This week, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage attended the Eurasia International Film Festival in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Press Release Jul 21, 2017 HRF Joins Cuba Decide to Honor Oswaldo Payá on the 5th Anniversary of his Death The campaign launched earlier this week to recognize the 5th anniversary of his death and to urge the Cuban State to launch an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his killing.
News Jul 19, 2017 Woman Recently Arrested for Wearing a Skirt Crop Top in Public Released Saudi Arabia: The regime have released Khulood, a woman who was arrested after videos appeared online of her strolling through a historic neighborhood in a short skirt and crop top.
Blog Post Jul 18, 2017 UN Condemns Cuba for Arbitrary Detention of El Sexto In a ruling published today , the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) explained that Maldonado was denied due process, and recommended the Cuban State to provide him with compensation for his nearly two months of wrongful imprisonment.
Blog Post Jul 18, 2017 ONU condena a Cuba por detención arbitraria de El Sexto En una opinión publicada hoy, el Grupo de Trabajo sobre la Detención Arbitraria de la ONU (GTDA) determinó que el Estado cubano privó arbitrariamente a Maldonado de su derecho a un debido proceso legal, y recomendó una indemnización por los casi dos meses de prisión que el artista estuvo detenido.
Press Release Jul 18, 2017 HRF Condemns Use of Child Soldiers in Colombia Javier El Hague, jefe de Asuntos Legales de la ONG Human Rights Foundation, manifestó a NTN24 la preocupación que tienen por los menores que permanecen reclutados en las filas de las FARC y aseguró que es responsabilidad del Gobierno de Colombia exigir la entrega total de los niños.
Press Release Jul 11, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Real Russia Today is a news digest with the most important news from Russia.
Press Release Jul 8, 2017 Venezuela’s Leopoldo López Released From Prison, Now Under House Arrest The announcement was published in the official Twitter account of Venezuela’s notoriously subservient Supreme Court, who cited “irregularities in the execution of his sentence” and “information about the health situation of the political leader” as justification for his conditional release.
Blog Post Jul 7, 2017 Russia tried to stop us from protesting On June 12, when I arrived to St. Petersburg’s Marsovo field, it wasn’t clear who came to participate in a protest and who was there just to celebrate Russia Day.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 HRF Real Russia Today (Part 1) The U.S. government on Wednesday unsealed charges against two Russian spies and two criminal hackers for allegedly pilfering 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 4) Britain’s high street banks processed nearly $740m from a vast money-laundering operation run by Russian criminals with links to the Russian government and the KGB, the Guardian can reveal.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 2) Three years ago, OCCRP exposed the “Russian Laundromat” – an immense financial fraud scheme that enabled vast sums to be pumped out of Russia.
Blog Post Jul 6, 2017 Real Russia Today (Part 3) Ukraine asked the United Nations’ highest court on Monday to order Russia to stop funding and equipping pro-Russian separatists, at the start of a hearing where it hopes to prove Moscow is breaking international law.
News Jul 6, 2017 Evan Mawarire in Deutsche Welle A Harare court on Friday denied Evan Mawarire, a Zimbabwean pastor and activist, bail. The judge said that Mawarire had to remain in custody as he was at risk of flight.
Press Release Jun 30, 2017 HRF to Russia: Free Peaceful Protesters and Annul Their Convictions On June 12, Russian police detained more than 1,720 people, including minors, during peaceful demonstrations across the country. Dinar Idrisov was arrested while trying to provide legal support for the detainees.
Publication Jun 28, 2017 Meet the Youthful Face of Resistance to Thailand’s Junta Every year, on the first day of school, thousands of first-year students file onto a field on the campus of Chulalongkorn, Thailand’s oldest and among its most prestigious universities, in the heart of the sweltering capital Bangkok.
Press Release Jun 26, 2017 Angola Indicts Oslo Freedom Forum Speaker The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the June 20 indictment of award-winning investigative journalist and human rights advocate Rafael Marques de Morais by Angola’s Office of the Attorney General.
News Jun 26, 2017 South Sudan censors newspapers, hampers press in civil war JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Journalists’ organizations, both international and domestic, charge that South Sudan’s government is restricting their ability to report the news.
Blog Post May 16, 2017 America, Your Election Is Not Rigged HRF chairman Garry Kasparov originally published this piece in The New York Times. For the last few weeks, the Republican nominee for president, Donald J. Trump, has been talking a lot about how the Nov. 8 election is rigged against him.
Press Release May 15, 2017 Uganda: Drop “Cyber-Harassment” Charges Against Activist for Facebook Posts The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) condemns the arbitrary arrest of women’s rights activist and researcher Dr. Stella Nyanzi, and calls on the Ugandan government to drop all charges against her.
