Human Rights Dispatch Jun 24, 2026 Ethiopia Sham Election, Uganda Deports Martha Karua HRF condemns the Ugandan regime’s expulsion of veteran Kenyan lawyer and politician Martha Karua on Monday.
Report Jun 24, 2026 Football in Equatorial Guinea’s dynastic family dictatorship Equatorial Guinea, a tiny central African nation which gained its independence from Spain in 1968, has been under the rule of a dynastic family dictatorship for nearly six decades.
Report Jun 23, 2026 How the Regime in Equatorial Guinea Exploits Football Equatorial Guinea’s regime has strategically exploited the global appeal of football as a political tool.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 23, 2026 Zimbabwe Alters Constitution, Museveni Targets Opponents HRF condemns draconian new foreign financing restrictions imposed by Uganda’s dictatorship on political opposition and NGOs under a new law that codifies centralized political control of dissent under the guise of curbing foreign influence.
Report Jun 23, 2026 Cómo el régimen de Guinea Ecuatorial instrumentaliza el fútbol HRF agradece a los valientes defensores de los derechos humanos, expertos y otras personas entrevistadas que han contribuido con su tiempo, conocimientos y testimonios a este informe.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 22, 2026 Thai Court Upholds Military Conscription Law HRF expresses concerns over the Thai Constitutional Court’s May 2026 decision to uphold the military conscription law despite concerns that it infringes upon constitutional rights, including freedom of conscience and belief.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 19, 2026 Rwanda Detains Victoire Ingabire, Russia Mistreats Journalist Iryna Danylovych On June 18, HRF and Reporters Without Borders ( @RSF_inter ) submitted urgent updates to UN Special Procedures on the ongoing ill-treatment of Crimean citizen-journalist, nurse, and human rights defender Iryna Danylovych, who remains imprisoned in Russia as her health continues to deteriorate in custody.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 18, 2026 Military Court Seeks 20 Years for Nathanaël Onokomba, Erias Lukwago Imprisoned, U Min Zin Arrested in China, and more. HRF expresses deep concern over China’s arrest of US citizen U Min Zin, a researcher and long-time critic of Burma’s military junta, and Burma’s detention of American businessman and author Adam Castillo.
Op-Ed Jun 17, 2026 Roman Abramovich Can Talk to Moscow and Kyiv. But He Can’t Change Putin’s Mind. Earlier this month, a familiar name re-entered the ongoing push for a negotiated settlement to Russia’s war in Ukraine: sanctioned Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 16, 2026 Uganda Military Abducts Lawyer Erias Lukwago, Russia’s Regional Influence Collapses In a @WSJ op-ed, @cjcmichel, Director of the Combating Kleptocracy Program at the Human Rights Foundation, argues that Russia’s influence across the former Soviet space has collapsed – as have its pretensions about being the leading regional power.
Publication Jun 16, 2026 High Court rejects Ingabire’s objections, orders trial to proceed The High Court in Kigali on Tuesday, June 16 ruled that the trial of Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire proceed, dismissing objections she had raised on Monday that she was not ready to stand trial on charges related to forming a criminal organisation.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 15, 2026 China Delays Sentencing of Artist Gao Zhen On June 10, Chinese dissident artist, Gao Zhen’s sentencing was postponed. He can now be sentenced any time between now and September 10. Gao Zhen has already spent almost two years in prison, for simply making art.
Op-Ed Jun 15, 2026 Russia Has Lost Its ‘Near Abroad’ As Ukraine fights back, every other ex-Soviet republic but Belarus distances itself from Moscow.
Publication Jun 15, 2026 Rwanda opposition leader Ingabire says she’s physically unfit for trial KIGALI, Rwands (AP) — The trial of Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire on charges of plotting unrest against the government was postponed Monday for one day after she told the court she was physically and mentally unprepared for the proceedings after a year in detention.
Publication Jun 14, 2026 Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam file fresh bail pleas in Delhi court To be sure, the court on January 5 rejected the bail pleas of Khalid and Imam, while granting relief to five co-accused.
Publication Jun 14, 2026 The Guardian view on culture in China: artist Gao Zhen is paying again for the country’s painful history Sixty years ago, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution – a decade of fanaticism that consumed China.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 13, 2026 Dictators Form Strategic Alliance, UN Orders Anacleto’s Release, Kagame Tightens Local Control, and more. HRF calls on the international community to remember the human cost of global authoritarian alignment and collaboration. Kim Jong-un’s deepening ties with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are not just diplomatic maneuvers.
Publication Jun 13, 2026 Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam file fresh bail pleas in Delhi Riots conspiracy case Activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have moved fresh bail applications before a Delhi court in the larger conspiracy case linked to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, arguing that their continued incarceration without commencement of trial violates their fundamental right to liberty.
Publication Jun 13, 2026 Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam move fresh bail pleas after nearly 6 years in jail Activists Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam have approached a Delhi court with fresh bail applications in the larger case linked to the 2020 northeast Delhi riots, arguing that their continued detention without the commencement of trial infringes upon their fundamental right to personal liberty.
Human Rights Dispatch Jun 12, 2026 Zimbabwe Activist Released, Congo Crackdown Kills Protesters, El Salvador Jails Lawyer, Indigenous Leader Dies, Activists Targeted Globally, and more. HRF condemns the Ortega-Murillo regime for the death under state custody of Indigenous leader and political prisoner Brooklyn Rivera. Rivera was arbitrarily detained and disappeared in September 2023, held without charges or access to his family, and died after 971 days under regime control.
