News Feb 22, 2017 In El País, HRF profiles OAS leader Luis Almagro Al anunciar que viajaría a La Habana a recibir un premio de manos de disidentes que piden democracia en Cuba, el secretario general de la OEA, Luis Almagro, ha forzado al régimen de Raúl Castro a prohibirle el ingreso con argumentos “bastante ridículos”.
News Feb 17, 2017 In El Nacional, HRF urges OAS to defend Venezuelan democracy “Queremos reconocer su claridad y firmeza frente a los embates antidemocráticos del régimen del presidente venezolano, Nicolás Maduro”, señalaron en la misiva el presidente de HRF, el venezolano Thor Halvorssen, y su secretario general, Garry Kasparov
News Jan 21, 2017 Václav Award Winner “El Sexto” in DW Danilo Maldonado “El Sexto” fue encarcelado sin juicio el pasado 26 de noviembre por haber escrito “Se fue” en varios edificios de La Habana tras la muerte de Fidel Castro.
News Jan 13, 2017 Thor Halvorssen in Verdens Gang on Venezuelan democracy Venezuela kan ikke lenger regnes som en stat med en regjering, institusjoner og et sivilt samfunn.
News Nov 2, 2016 Javier El-Hage writes in El País about the “coup” in Venezuela El presidente de Venezuela viene acusando a la oposición de planear un golpe de Estado en su contra “como los que fueron perpetrados contra Zelaya en Honduras, Lugo en Paraguay, y Roussef en Brasil”.
News Oct 26, 2016 HRF Questions Atlantic Council in The Hill Washington is filled with public relations firms which promote the agendas of the world’s most repressive regimes in exchange for cash. To hide human rights abuses, Equatorial Guinea’s strongman hired Qorvis; the pre-revolutionary Tunisian regime hired Washington Media Group and the Saudis hired Edelman.
News Jul 22, 2016 HRF Commemorates the Fourth Anniversary of the Death of Cuban Dissident Four years after Payá’s death in a mysterious car accident, his family is still searching for the truth. Today marks the fourth anniversary of the death of Cuban pro-democracy dissident Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas.
News Jul 12, 2016 HRF in the Washington Post Javier El-Hage and Celine Assaf Boustani, members of HRF’s legal team, originally published this piece in The Washington Post. This week marked two years since a Saudi Arabian kangaroo court sentenced human rights lawyer Waleed Abulkhair to 15 years in prison for “inciting public opinion.”
News Jun 1, 2016 This Nonprofit Wants the U.S. to Ally With Syria’s Dictator In this turbulent election year, one constant theme for leaders of both major parties is a desire to build a global coalition against the Islamic State. Now a relatively unknown group is taking that message literally.
News Mar 28, 2016 Javier El-Hage writes on Obama’s visit to Cuba in El País El presidente Obama ahora ostenta el dudoso honor de ser el único presidente en ejercicio de Estados Unidos que ha posado en decenas de fotografías con uno de los hermanos Castro en la mismísima Habana, en pleno año 57 de su régimen totalitario.
News Mar 28, 2016 HRF to Nigeria: Withdraw Social Media Bill Targeting Free Speech The vaguely drafted bill, officially called “An Act to Prohibit Frivolous Petitions; And Other Matters Connected Therewith,” seeks to prevent “false” and “abusive statements,” published through “text message, tweets, WhatsApp or through any other social media post,” against any person or “institutions of government.”
News Mar 20, 2016 USA Today visits Flash Drives for Freedom at SXSW SXSW is all about FOMO. Between the festival’s events being scattered across the city and a designed-for-dismay schedule that can schedule dozens panels on top of each other, this annual gathering is guaranteed to inflict Fear Of Missing Out.
News Mar 18, 2016 Garry Kasparov in Newsweek Historical comparisons involving Russian leader Vladimir Putin are usually directed toward the distant past.
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.
News Sep 23, 2015 HRF pres. on the arrest of his cousin, Leopoldo Lopez, in Venezuela HRF president Thor Halvorssen published the following article in The Daily Beast upon the jailing of his cousin, Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, after a sham trial engineered to eliminate him as a political threat.
News Sep 17, 2015 Miami Herald reports on Leopoldo Lopez’s arbitrary arrest The trial and conviction of opposition leader Leopoldo López by a kangaroo court in Caracas last week is more than just another outrage by the political gang running Venezuela.
News Sep 11, 2015 LA Times on Leopoldo Lopez’s sentencing Human rights organizations Friday condemned a Venezuelan court’s sentencing of opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez to more than 13 years in prison for allegedly inciting violence in nationwide protests that left 43 dead in early 2014.
News Jul 22, 2015 Foreign Policy on HRF’s new legal report about the mysterious death of Payá Exactly three years ago, prominent Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá was traveling in a Hyundai sedan from Havana to Santiago de Cuba along with three other people when the car struck a patch of gravel and veered off the road, striking a tree and killing him and one other passenger.
News Jun 28, 2015 HRF Reports on Oswaldo Paya’s Death EFE on the findings of HRF’s new legal report about the mysterious death of Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá in 2012.
