On 16 May 2013, the wife of human rights defender Mr Ales Bialiatski went to the Bobruysk colony No.2, where her husband has been held since February 2012, in order to bring him a food parcel. However, the food parcel was refused by prison officials, who informed her that in March 2013 Ales Bialiatski's right to receive food from visitors had been suspended for six months.
On 30 April 2013, human rights defender Ms Alba Cruz received a threatening message to her mobile phone. The tone of the message was similar to threats she had received before, in which she was told there was still unfinished business which needed to be acted on.
On 2 May 2013, at approximately 5pm, human rights defenders and journalists Mr Amitabh Patra and Mr Lenin Kumar Ray were released on bail from Balangir Jail pending trial. They had been arrested on 29 April 2013 along with fourteen protesters in the state of Odisha in eastern India.
On 12 April 2013, the daughter of human rights defender Ms Claudia Julieta Duque was photographed by an unknown man in the vicinity of her father's home. The man took a photograph of her up close and she managed to get a photograph of him from the back as he rapidly retreated. Previously on 10 April 2013, she was photographed whilst she was with her boyfriend, again in the vicinity of her father's house.
On 10 April 2013, human rights defender Mr José Sixto Rivera was detained briefly by police agents, before being released and warned not to get involved with the people of Puerto Grande.
Front Line Defenders has learned that human rights defender Mr Liu Feiyue was allowed to return home at around 4pm on 17 March 2013. He had been missing for 12 days after being taken away from his home in Suizhou city, Hubei province by local police.
On 15 March 2013, the Head of the Office of the President of Azerbaijan Mr Ramiz Mehtiyev publicly censured non-governmental organisations (NGOs) receiving financial support from foreign donors, alleging that this would result in an interference in the domestic affairs of the country.
On 12 March 2013, approximately one month after he was forced to go into hiding due to threats, human rights defender Mr Fabakary Ceesay received a tip off that the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) had issued an alert to its agents to search for him.
During the evening of 23 January 2013, detained human rights defenders and Twerwaneho Listeners Club (TLC) members Mr Gerald Kankya, Simon Amanyire and Gilbert Kayondo were released on bail.
On 30 and 31 October 2012, members of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR)’s Land Reform Project Team were harassed and intimidated by police and military officials during a mission to collect information about the resolution of a land conflict.
The ideas, opinions and comments contained on this website are entirely the responsibility of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent or reflect Irish Aid policy.
<$
<$
<$
<$
<$
<$
