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On 6 September, Cairo Criminal Court ordered the extension of human rights defender Ramy Kamel’s detention for an additional 45 days pending investigation in case no.1475/2019. The human rights defender is facing charges of “funding a terrorist organisation”, “defamation” and “misuse of social media”. The human rights defender remains in detention in Tora prison.

On 7 May, 2023 Crimean Tatar human rights defender Abdureshit Dzhepparov was released after completing his sentence of 12 days administrative arrest.

On 19 June 2024, the three land defenders Sleydo’ Molly Wickham, Shaylynn Sampson and Corey Jayohcee Jocko were informed that the upcoming hearing scheduled for that day was postponed until 3 September 2024. This was due to unforeseen health issues.

On 15 February 2024 the Russian occupational law enforcement authorities from the Center for Combating Extremism in Simferopol, Crimea, drew up an administrative report against Crimean human rights defender and lawyer Emil Kurbedinov for so-called “abuse of freedom of mass information,” a crime, envisioned by Part 9, Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

On 28 May 2023, the human rights defender and leader of the Garifuna community in Triunfo de la Cruz, Honduras, Martín Morales Martínez, was found dead after having been reported as missing by his family on 27 May 2023.

On 2 May 2023, the woman human rights defender Teresa Magueyal was shot dead by a group of unidentified armed men while riding her bike in the area of San Miguel Octopan, in the municipality of Celaya, Guanajuato.

On 14 April 2022, unknown persons carried out the third break-in this month into the home of environmental human rights defenders Juan Carlos Flores Solís and Miryam Vargas Teutle in the community of Santa María Zacatepec in the municipality of Juan C Bonilla, in the state of Puebla. The environmental human rights defenders are members of the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa del Agua y de la Tierra de Morelos, Puebla y Tlaxcala (FPDATMPT) in the municipality of Zacatepec de Hidalgo, in the state of Morelos.

On 15 August 2022, the woman human rights defender Maryam Karimbeigi was informed via SMS that she has been banned from travelling. This is following the announcement made on 1 August 2022, when the lawyer of Maryam Karimbeigi announced that branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced the woman human rights defender to three years and seven months in prison on the charge of “gathering and colluding against national security;” with a complementary punishment of a fine and 74 lashes. The woman human rights defender and her lawyer have appealed this sentence.

On 16 June 2022 law enforcement officers raided woman human rights defender Irina Putilova’s apartment. The raid was sanctioned as a part of the criminal case on “hooliganism motivated by political and ideological hatred” under article 6.1.213 of the Criminal Code launched against human rights project Open Space. It is an article that assumes jail time, up to 7 years if sentenced, yet, the individual who will receive the persecution remains unidentified. On the same day, the law enforcement officers arrived at the office of human rights project Open Space in St.