Blog Post Mar 16, 2016 Elections Under Authoritarian Regimes: Azerbaijan and Iran NEW YORK – On Monday, Russia’s Putin-controlled Constitutional Court approved proposed constitutional amendments to reset the count on presidential term limits to zero.
Press Release Feb 25, 2016 Egypt: HRF & American University Washington College of Law Submit Petition to UN Yesterday, HRF handed the petition to representatives of the WGAD requesting that the group issue an opinion declaring Mr. Zeid’s detention to be arbitrary.
Press Release Feb 24, 2016 HRF to UN: Inquire into Suspicious Death of Oswaldo Payá in Cuba In a meeting with staff members from the U.N. Special Rapporteur’s office, HRF presented the conclusions of its July 2015 legal report, which strongly suggests that Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá’s 2012 death was an extrajudicial execution carried out by the Cuban government.
Press Release Feb 11, 2016 HRF to Turkey: Free Journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül On November 26, Dündar, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Cumhuriyet, and Gül, the Ankara bureau chief, were arrested based on a criminal complaint filed against them by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Press Release Feb 10, 2016 HRF Supports the First US Exhibit of Cuban Artist El Sexto El Sexto, a Cuban graffiti artist and activist, will showcase his work in an exhibition entitled “PORK,” which will take place at Market Gallery in South Beach, Miami, from February 26 to March 16.
Press Release Feb 4, 2016 HRF to Morocco: Drop Charges Against Human Rights Activists Human Rights Foundation (HRF) strongly condemns Morocco’s continued crackdown on freedom of expression, and urges the authorities to drop all charges against seven human rights activists, including five journalists.
Press Release Jan 29, 2016 Ecuador: HRF Condemns Cyber-Attacks Against Free Press Watchdog These attacks began just days after the nonprofit launched Censuracom.ec, a website designed to expose the government’s crackdown on independent media during 2015.
Press Release Jan 25, 2016 Afghanistan: HRF Condemns Taliban Deadly Attack on Tolo News On January 20, a Taliban bomber detonated explosives, targeting a TOLO bus carrying employees during evening rush hour.
Press Release Jan 21, 2016 Venezuela: HRF Condemns Inhuman Treatment of Leopoldo López’s Wife and Mother Both women were told to undress in separate rooms — in the case of Mendoza, she was forced to do so in front of her two grandchildren, ages three and six — and were verbally abused in an attempt to punish and humiliate them.
News Jan 21, 2016 DW quotes HRF on El Sexto’s release from Cuban prison Maldonado, considerado preso de conciencia por Amnistía Internacional, explicó que se encuentra “bien de salud, contento y animado”, en una llamada de teléfono desde su domicilio familiar en La Habana.
Press Release Jan 13, 2016 HRF to Saudi Arabia: End Harassment and Drop Charges Against Samar Badawi Badawi is a prominent Saudi human rights advocate and the former wife of the arbitrarily imprisoned human rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair.
Press Release Jan 6, 2016 HRF to OAS Secretary-General: Apply the Democracy Clause in Venezuela HRF calls on Almagro to summon an extraordinary session of the Permanent Council of the OAS in order to analyze the situation in Venezuela and call for a peaceful return to democratic rule in that country.
Blog Post Dec 22, 2015 Facing Worldwide Scrutiny, Angola Releases Political Prisoners After one week of intensive international media attention on Angola’s dictatorship, 15 political prisoners were released from prison into house arrest this past Friday.
Blog Post Dec 17, 2015 Nicki Minaj Shouldn’t Be Performing for Dictators HRF president Thor Halvorssen and HRF International Council member George Ayittey in Slate on Nicki Minaj’s upcoming performance for Angolan dictator José Eduardo dos Santos.
Press Release Oct 30, 2015 HRF to Cuba: End Harassment and Legal Persecution Against El Sexto In December, Maldonado was arbitrarily arrested and accused of criminal defamation for “insulting” the leaders of the Cuban revolution.
Press Release Oct 29, 2015 HRF Deplores Election of Dictatorships to Top UN Human Rights Body The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) deplores yesterday’s U.N. General Assembly vote electing the authoritarian regimes of Burundi, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Togo, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela as members of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for a three-year term.
Press Release Oct 20, 2015 HRF, Lantos Foundation, UN Watch to Host Event Opposing Election of Authoritarians In anticipation of the upcoming elections of the 2016-2018 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), the Lantos Foundation, and UN Watch will host a luncheon at the United Nations at 12:00pm on Tuesday, October 27, in opposition to bids from a collection of authoritarian states to sit on the council.
Press Release Oct 20, 2015 HRF Chairman Visits Kazakh Dissident in Prison; Calls on French President Today, the chairman of the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), Garry Kasparov, visited Kazakh dissident Mukhtar Ablyazov in the Paris detention center where Ablyazov is detained pending the outcome of extradition proceedings that have dragged on for more than two years.
Press Release Oct 14, 2015 Cuba: HRF Celebrates Life and Legacy of Laura Pollán HRF volunteers filmed this only a few months prior to Pollán’s abrupt and mysterious death in a Havana hospital.
Press Release Oct 9, 2015 Nobel Peace Prize: HRF Welcomes Recognition of Tunisia’s Civil Society The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) welcomes today’s announcement by the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarding the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize to the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet.
