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16 December 2021

Police violence against twenty women human rights defenders and members of the Women’s Observatory

On 7 December 2021, twenty well-known women human rights defenders and members of the Women’s Observatory were attackd, of whom 18 wre arrested, during a peaceful protest in front of the Palace of Justice, in down-town Maputo. The protest was violently shut down by the Mozambique Republic Police (PRM), with officers reportedly beating protesters. The defenders were arrested and released later the same day.

Rights 
#Gender/Women's Rights
Violations 
#Physical Attack
Location 
#Region: Africa
#Mozambique
HRD or Organization 
Women's Observatory
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18 November 2021

Detained human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja begins hunger strike

On the 7th anniversary of the peaceful popular movement of the Bahraini people which started on 14 February 2011, the NGOs called on the international community to help free human rights defenders in Bahrain, some of whom are jailed for life, and to stop the persecution of journalists simply for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. On 05 February 2018, Abdulhadi's wife Khadija Al-Mousawi tweeted that she visited her husband  who has been targeted and abused in Jaw prison and has been taken to hospital in shackles.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
#Torture / Ill-Treatment
Location 
#Bahrain
HRD or Organization 
Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja
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15 May 2020

Death threat against WHRD Ruth Mumbi

On 12 May 2020, woman human rights defender Ruth Mumbi received a message from an unknown number, threatening to make her “disappear” if she did not remove posts she had made on social media. The posts documented the eviction of 5000 households in Kariobangi, an estate in north-eastern Nairobi, and the impact of the evictions on the tenants.

Rights 
#Gender/Women's Rights
Violations 
#Threats / Intimidation
Location 
#Region: Africa
#Kenya
HRD or Organization 
Ruth Mumbi

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