The Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), a Balkan-based coalition of 13 human rights organisations, has released its annual report; documenting the “torture or inhuman and degrading treatment” experienced by countless migrants attempting to cross Greek and Croatian borders. … Read more →
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European Court fines Turkey for rights violations against HDP representative
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that the Turkish executive violated the rights of Filiz Kerestecioğlu, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) legislator, by removing her parliamentary immunity, subsequently opening her up to prosecution. … Read more →
Iran’s arbitrary detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe amounts to torture
Dominic Raab, British foreign secretary, has called Iran’s treatment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe torture, and for the first time stated that her arrest is tied to the £400m debt that the UK government owes to Iran, as well as Iran’s nuclear deal. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has recently been sentenced to a further year in prison on top of an additional year of house arrest, is currently staying at her parents’ home in Tehran while on bail. … Read more →
WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: Recently Freed Journalists in Yemen Reveal Details of Their Torture by the Houthis and the Horror the 4 Yemeni Journalists Unjustly Sentenced to Death are facing
Exclusive interview: Journalists being used as human shields, jailed in Covid-19 infested cells and traded for prisoners of war in Yemen by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias. World Press Freedom Day 2021 marks another year on death row for four Yemeni journalists; Abdul Khaleq Imran, Akram El Walidi, Harith Hamid and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri. Five of the original ten journalists, unlawfully arrested and imprisoned in Yemen by the Iranian-backed Houthi militias, were … Read more →
World Press Freedom Day: A booster shot for media freedom in Ethiopia
To commemorate the 30th World Press Freedom Day, the International Observatory of Human Rights held a webinar on 29 April to consider how media freedom stands in 2021. Participants considered the challenges during the dual pandemics of Covid and disinformation and what needs to happen next to get media freedom’s immunity boosted to build a momentum of positive change; while keeping its practitioners safe. The webinar brought together a distinguished … Read more →
CoE report confirms European press freedom regression
The Council of Europe has released its annual report, examining the progression and regression of European press freedom over the course of the last year. Unfortunately the report, titled the “Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists”, primarily consists of regressions, presenting a bleak picture of the condition of press freedom and independent media across the region … Read more →