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Egypt: Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste released while colleagues remain in jail
Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste has been released from prison after spending 400 days behind bars. Greste, along with fellow Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy, had been accused of colluding with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Read more >
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North Caucasus: Human Rights NGO lawyer hospitalised after brutal assault
On 4 February,
Memorial lawyer Murad Magomedov was brutally attacked by five unknown men not far from Dagestan’s Supreme Court, in the republic’s capital Makhachkala. The attack took place in broad daylight during an interlude in court proceedings, where Magomedov was defending a client alleged to have been involved in a suicide bombing in August 2012.
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The Gambia: Families targeted and persecuted after failed coup d’état in the Gambia
Human rights organisations in Africa have called upon the international community to take immediate action to put an end to the arbitrary detention and persecution of relatives and family members of people suspected of having taken part in the failed coup d’état in the Gambia.
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Establish a UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Privacy
A coalition of international non-governmental organisations working to protect human rights, write to encourage governments to support the creation of a new Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy at the Human Rights Council (HRC) 28th ordinary session in March.
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Senegal: Ban on opposition demonstrations
The Senegalese League of Human Rights (LSDH), Amnesty International/Senegal, ARTICLE 19/West Africa, the African Meeting for the Defence of Human Rights (RADDHO) and the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) / Senegal are concerned about the government’s repeated banning of opposition demonstrations.
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“Law enforcement” in Crimea: Tatar-language television station ATR raided by authorities
On Monday morning last week, dozens of law enforcement officials wearing masks and toting Kalashnikov rifles entered the headquarters of the Tatar-language TV channel ATR in Simferopol, Crimea. A short while later, ATR — the world’s first ever television station for Crimean Tatars — had been taken off air.
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Iran: The Un-universal Application of Universal Human Rights
“Free speech in Iran”. “Freedom of expression in Iran”. “The right to privacy in Iran”.Three sentences that seem to rattle and bemuse Iran’s ruling elite who apparently consider these universal rights as a privilege only afforded to a handful of high-ranking Iranian officials. Yet when the last two words in the sentences are removed, they become inalienable rights that must be protected. This double-standard has dumbfounded Iranian human rights defenders for years.
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