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I made my way out to the Military Court in Rifaa this morning (21st April) to try and be allowed to be an observer at the process against my friend and former colleague Abdulhadi Alkhawaja. I was allowed into the court building but a Bahrain Defence
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Met the wonderful Zeinab Alkhawaja today who is on hunger strike for the release of her husband, brother-in-law and father (my friend Abdulhadi)
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/node/14819
See Zeinab's testimony at:
http://www.youtube.com/user/
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Andrew Anderson is on his way to Bahrain following the recent clamp down there and the arrest of former Front Line colleague and friend Abdulhadi Alkawaja.
Mohammed al- Tajer, a prominent human rights lawyer has also been arrested - http://www.
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It is unbelieveable that the killings of human rights defenders and witnesses to their deaths go on in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. How do we campaign to get an end to them?
9 days ago, 17 year old Juan Ernesto Maciel, a key witness to the murder of the
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Will delivery live up to promise?
Human Rights Defenders in Honduras have scored another good win. The Honduran Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Ana Pineda, met with members of LGBT organizations on 21 January 2011. The organizations asked the
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Shameful attack yesterday on the families of detainees by the Syrian authorities with the number detained now estimated by HRW at 34 including a member of the al-Bunni family. Anwar al-Bunni was the winner of the Front Line Award in 2008: http://www
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Shameful attack yesterday on the families of detainees by the Syrian authorities with the number detained now estimated by HRW at 34 including a member of the al-Bunni family. Anwar al-Bunni was the winner of the Front Line Award in 2008: http://www
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Got a huge shock when I heard our friend Abdulhadi had been shot in Bahrain, but I just spoke with him and he insisted he wasn't hurt seriously, just a couple of birdshot pellets fired from some distance. He is much more worried about the attacks on
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Got a huge shock when I heard our friend Abdulhadi had been shot in Bahrain, but I just spoke with him and he insisted he wasn't hurt seriously, just a couple of birdshot pellets fired from some distance. He is much more worried about the attacks on
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Hectic times in Geneva this week, loads of events/meetings with Human Rights Defenders who are here to try to get action from the international community on their situations and those of their communities. Particularly inspiring is Karmen Ramirez
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