1/ This month, HRF submitted formal contributions to the United Nations Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of three authoritarian regimes. “Niger, Mozambique, and Singapore remind us that the struggle for freedom knows no borders,” HRF Chief Advocacy Officer Roberto Gonz├бlez said.
2/ In Mozambique, HRF documented an alarming escalation of surveillance, censorship, and violence following the contested 2024 elections, including arbitrary detentions, disappearances, and extrajudicial killings.
In Niger, following the 2023 coup, the junta has cracked down on journalists, silenced dissent through cybercrime laws, and detained pro-democracy activists and former officials without due process.
In Singapore, the regime continues to systematically censor independent media, harass civil society, and criminalize peaceful protest through abusive legislation.
3/ HRF’s submissions urge each regime to uphold freedoms of expression, assembly, and the press; release political prisoners and detainees; end impunity for human rights violations; and comply with international human rights obligations.
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