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andrew in uzbekistan
28 March 2019

Turning a Corner in Uzbekistan?

By Andrew Anderson - Former Executive Director

Andrew Anderson, together with the Front Line Defenders Protection Coordinator for Europe & Central Asia, Masha Chitchenkova, visited Uzbekistan in March 2019.

“The prison wardens used to ask me why I was smiling, was I pleased with my sentence? I asked them if smiling was against prison regulations.”

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
Locations 
#Uzbekistan
Blog Post
27 May 2021

Brazil: Impunity fuels the cycle of violence against land and environmental rights defenders in the state of Pará, Amazon region

By Michelle Foley - Interim Head of RAPP and Capacity Building

“Resisting is the best way to honour their lives. Let us not be shaken.”
- José Vargas Junior

Rights 
#Impunity / Justice
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment #Killing
Locations 
#Region: Americas #Brazil
Publication
16 April 2020

Dispatches 2019

Dispatches 2019 presents the work Front Line Defenders has undertaken around the world for the protection and security of human rights defenders at risk in 2019, including the impact of grants, training, advocacy, visibility, rest & respite and other programs. In 2019, Front Line Defenders hosted 114 HRDs at the biennial Dublin Platform; presented its annual Awards to 5 LGBTI+ rights defenders in honor of the 50th annivesary of the Stonewall Uprising; and provided 626 protection grants to HRDs around the world.

Rights 
#Human Rights
Location 
#Global

#DEFENDERSBEYONDWALLS

Campaign
26 April 2019

#DEFENDERSBEYONDWALLS

Migrant rights defenders in Central America, Mexico and the United States are coming under attack as the Trump Administration bullies and threatens regional governments into compliance with its demands to end migration in the region and stop migrants from arriving at the US border.

Rights 
#Refugees / IDPs / Migrants
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
Location 
#Region: Americas#Mexico
Take Action
31 March 2016

Take Action for Our Rights Group

On 28 March 2016, two members of the Our Rights Group, a Sudanese civil society coalition, were prevented from traveling from Sudan to Geneva, where they were due to participate in meetings related to the UN's review of Sudan's human rights record, a process that is explicitly supposed to include contributions from independent civil society. Sudan's examination under the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is scheduled for May 2016.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
#Freedom of Association
Violations 
#Travel Ban
Location 
#Sudan
HRD or Organization 
Our Rights Group
Take Action
15 July 2016

Take Action for Adil Bakheit and Khalafalla Alafif Mukhtar

Le 18 juillet 2016, le défenseur des droits humains Khalafalla Alafif Mukhtar comparaitra devant la cour d'assise centrale de Khartoum. Il est accusé de sept infractions pénales, notamment d'avoir "engagé une guerre contre l'État". Khalafalla Alafif Mukhtar est détenu au parquet de Khartoum depuis le 22 mai 2016, avec ses collègues Mustafa Adam et Midhat A Hamdan.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights
#Journalism
Violations 
#Judicial Harassment
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
Location 
#Sudan
HRD or Organization 
Adil Bakheit
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Azimjan Askarov at hearing - October 2016
4 October 2016

Azimjan Askarov on Trial Again

By Maria Chichtchenkova

Azimjan Askarov is a Kyrgyz HRD working against corruption and for civil and political rights in the country, including for the ethnic minority Uzbek population.  He was arrested during the violent clashes in southern Kyrgyzstan in 2010 between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz, though he had long been targeted by the authorities because of his human rights work.  Read more about his persecution on his case history page.  Masha Chichtchenkova is Front Line Defenders Protection Coo

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights #Minority Rights
Violations 
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Torture / Ill-Treatment
Locations 
#Kyrgyzstan
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Andrew Anderson's Blog
Andrew Anderson Visiting Azimjan Askarov in Prison in Kyrgyzstan
17 May 2016

Birthday Behind Bars in Kyrgyzstan for Azimjan Askarov

By Andrew Anderson - Former Executive Director

When I visited Azimjan Askarov in prison in Bishkek in December 2010 there were some grounds for hope that he would be released. He had been sentenced in September 2010 to life in prison, but the process had been seriously flawed and the Kyrgyz human rights Ombudsman had found that the charges against him were politically motivated. When we met with Azimjan our main concern was that his health was improving following the torture he had been subjected to.

Rights 
#Civil & Political Rights #Minority Rights #Corruption
Violations 
#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Torture / Ill-Treatment
Locations 
#Kyrgyzstan
Publication
6 May 2019

Dispatches 2018

Dispatches 2018 presents the work Front Line Defenders has undertaken around the world for the protection and security of human rights defenders at risk in 2018, including the impact of grants, training, advocacy, visibility, rest & respite and other programs.

Rights 
#Human Rights
Location 
#Global

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