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India: Intimidation and harassment of conveners of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports that human rights defenders Dr Angana Chatterji and Advocate Parvez Imroz, conveners of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir have been subjected to intimidation and harassment. The International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir began on 5 April 2008 and was formed by the Public Commission on Human Rights in order to investigate charges of institutionalised violence and human rights violations in Indian-administered Kashmir.  Read More

Uzbekistan: Acts of intimidation against human rights defender Saida Kurbanova

Front Line is deeply concerned following acts of intimidation against human rights defender Saida Kurbanova. Saida Kurbanova is the head of the non-governmental organisation, the Human Rights Society of Uzbekistan (HRSU), in the Pakhtakor district of the Jizak region. She is also a farmer and a campaigner for farmers' rights.  Read More

West Papua: Human rights defender, Yan Christian Warinussy followed and threatened

“You want evidence of people being killed? I will kill your tribe, your family and your children will become only bones..........”. Yan Christian Warinussy is Executive Director of the Institute of Research, Analysis and Development for Legal Aid in Manokwari, West Papua which documents human rights abuses. In recent months Yan Christian has received repeated death threats because of his work.  Read More

Sudan: Osman Ibrahim and members of the Kajbar Dam committee subject to ongoing harassment

Osman Ibrahim is Secretary of the Kajbar Dam Committee, who are protesting at the construction of dam, which will flood their villages resulting in forced displacement of local communities. Local people are particularly concerned at the lack of any adequate consultation on the plans to build the dam. <!break-->

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Posted 18/11/2007 Osman Ibrahim and other committee members including Abdel Aziz Ali Khieri, have been repeatedly arrested and ill-treated while in custody. On 13 June 2007, four people died and thirteen others suffered serious injuries when armed security personnel fired on the crowd during a peaceful demonstration against the dam.

Journalists and lawyers attending the protest were arrested. Front Line is concerned that the Kajbar Dam Committee will face ongoing intimidation and arrests.

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Tunisia: Record on human rights defenders remains “very poor”, reveals a Front Line and Human Rights First mission report

While Tunisia is commemorating this year the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the republican system and the 20th anniversary of the accession of President Ben Ali to power, its record with respect to the treatment of human rights activists remains “very poor”, reveals a mission report, released on 27 September in Brussels by Front Line, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, on the occasion of the visit of Ms Sihem Bensedrine, Tunisian human rights defender and journalist, who is an emblematic figure of the fight for freedom and human rights in Tunisia. She is also a founding member and the spokeswoman of the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (Conseil National pour les Libertés en Tunisie, CNLT).  Read More

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Front Line Sierra Leone: Murders Death Threats and Other Forms of Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders, 1997-2002

Human Rights work in Sierra Leone is a relatively new phenomenon. Before the military takeover in 1992, the country had been governed by a one party dictatorship for over twenty years. Verbal intimidation, unlawful imprisonment, unwarranted lawsuits, harassment, physical attacks, death threats or even murder were prevalent during this regime, and it was difficult for any group or individual to comment on or take any action against violations of Human Rights. Even after the end of this regime, Sierra Leone continues to see abuse of power and contempt for Human Rights by Governments, armed opposition groups and other segments of the society.

Front Line Rwanda: Disappearances Arrests Threats Intimidation and Co-option of Human Rights Defenders 2001 - 2004

Over the past three years, Rwanda’s increasingly authoritarian government has arrested political opponents, stifled independent journalists, targeted human rights defenders, failed to thoroughly investigate disappearances, and narrowed the space for independent civil society. It has justified those actions as necessary to prevent ‘ethnic divisionism’ and a possible resurgence of genocide. Two months after the tenth commemoration of the genocide in April 2004, a Parliamentary Commission made accusations of genocidal ideology – a highly charged allegation in a country still recovering from the 1994 genocide that killed at least 800,000 people – against several civil society NGOs involved in promoting human rights in the judicial and rural sectors. While the main targets were LIPRODHOR (Rwandan League for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights or Ligue rwandaise pour la promotion et la défense des droits de l’Homme) and FOR (Forum of Rural Organisations or Forum des organisations rurales), the Commission also went after the only remaining independent newspaper, churches, schools, and even international development NGOs such as CARE and Trócaire.  Read More

Front Line concern over death threats against Guatemalan human rights defenders

Front Line is deeply concerned about death threats that have been made against members of the Fundación de Antropología Forense Guatemala (FAFG), Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, as well as against their family members between 24 and 29 May 2007  Read More

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