News Oct 6, 2017 This is No Joke: Bolivian Ruler Invokes His ‘Human Right’ to Stay in Power While many of us were trying to absorb the news of the Las Vegas massacre and President Trump’s bungled response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, a growing political scandal in South America went almost unnoticed in the media: Bolivia’s populist President Evo Morales is making an illegal bid to run for a fourth term in office…
News Oct 5, 2017 Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova wins 2017 Allard Prize When investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova asked an Azerbaijani court to let her travel to Canada for an award ceremony honouring her work, her request was denied.
News Oct 4, 2017 Rwanda Charges Critic of President With Inciting Insurrection KIGALI (Reuters) – Rwandan authorities have charged a critic of President Paul Kagame with inciting insurrection and forgery after she was barred from challenging him in August elections, the public prosecutor’s spokesman said on Wednesday.
News Oct 3, 2017 Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Sentenced to 20 Days in Jail MOSCOW — The Russian opposition politician Aleksei A. Navalny was convicted and sentenced to 20 days in jail by a Russian court on Monday for repeated violation of rules governing public demonstrations — a term long enough for him to miss a major rally he and supporters had scheduled for Saturday.
News Oct 3, 2017 ‘Go Kabila go’: new effort to oust DR Congo president despite fear of violence Opposition leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have called for a new effort to oust President Joseph Kabila, who has yet to set dates for elections in the vast central African state despite his second term expiring nine months ago.
News Oct 2, 2017 Rally Held ‘For Fair Elections’ In Bishkek Ahead Of October Presidential Vote BISHKEK — Around one thousand people gathered at a rally in the Kyrgyz capital organized by activists protesting against election-campaign abuses, including bribery and the use of “administrative resources” — whereby political candidates and parties use their official connections to influence and pressure voters, especially those employed by the state.
News Sep 26, 2017 A heart-breaking testimony of torture in North Korea Watch the heart-breaking testimony by Otto Warmbier’s parents of the torture his son endured under the world’s most brutal dictatorship.
News Aug 30, 2017 Fast Company on Tech & Human Rights With all the recent disturbing saber rattling from U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, East Asia has become much more unstable. World leaders and seasoned diplomats are urging constraint and intensified diplomacy to defuse the potentially catastrophic situation.
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.
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.
News Apr 19, 2017 HRF writes on Zimbabwe election One year ago today, an advertising professional-turned-Evangelical pastor draped Zimbabwe’s flag over his shoulders, logged on to Facebook and delivered a passionate appeal to his fellow countrymen.
News Apr 7, 2017 LA Times reports on El Sexto’s Art in Protest exhibit At the tail end of 2014, Danilo Maldonado Machado, the graffiti artist known as “El Sexto,” was detained by the authorities as he made his way to a public park in Havana to stage a work of protest art.
News Apr 3, 2017 Radio Martí on HRF’s open letter on film censorship Radio Martí’s Roxana Romero discusses HRF’s open letter written to the Havana Film Festival New York criticizing the Festival’s decision to remove Carlos Lechuga’s award-winning film, Santa and Andrés, from competition after pressure from the Castro regime.
News Mar 28, 2017 Bloomberg quotes HRF on corruption in Latin America In Latin America, crooked business goes by many names. Coima, propina, the bite and — my favorite — “milk for the kids” are just a few. However you call corruption, people in 13 countries in the Americas agreed that it is one of the region’s biggest scourges, according to pollster Latinobarometro.
News Mar 15, 2017 Reason TV deems HRF the most disruptive at SXSW Reason TV published a video and article featuring HRF’s panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” at this year’s SXSW, an annual interactive festival held in Austin, TX.
News Mar 15, 2017 VOA live interview with Celine Assaf Boustani HRF attended SXSW to promote Flash Drives for Freedom and to host a panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” with activists who use technology to promote freedom in closed societies.
News Mar 13, 2017 CNN en Marcha interviews Rosa María Payá Rosa María attended SXSW to join HRF’s panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” with other activists who use technology to promote freedom in closed societies.
News Mar 13, 2017 CNN en Marcha interviews Thor Halvorssen at SXSW Thor attended SXSW to moderate HRF’s panel, “The Real Information Revolution,” featuring activists who use technology to promote freedom in closed societies.
News Mar 10, 2017 Curul85 interviews nonviolence expert Jamila Raquib during CFF at UFM Jamila Raqib, directora ejecutiva del Instituto Albert Einstein, que promueve la libertad y la democracia a través de acciones pacíficas, fue una de las ponentes durante la pasada edición del College Freedom Forum at UFM.
News Mar 1, 2017 HRF in Newsday GENEVA-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) last week submitted a request to the United Nations (UN) for an investigation into the arrest and detention of cleric and #ThisFlag movement founder, Evan Mawarire on his return to Zimbabwe last month.