Status: Released Enes Hocaoğulları 9 September 2025Human rights defender Enes Hocaoğulları released after 35 days in pre-trial detention Violations #Smear Campaign #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Europe and Central Asia #TÜRKİYE
Status: Arrested Suneeta Pottam 5 May 2025Woman human rights defender Suneeta Pottam arrested by the National Investigation Agency Violations #Reprisals #Smear Campaign #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Violence Location #Region: Asia Pacific #India
Status: Harassment Radio Cholollan 15 April 2025New intimidating messages against woman human rights defender Miryam Vargas Teutle Violations #Smear Campaign #Other Harassment #Threats / Intimidation Location #Region: Americas #Mexico
Status: Harassment Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra y el Agua - Morelos, Puebla y Tlaxcala 15 April 2025New intimidating messages against woman human rights defender Miryam Vargas Teutle Violations #Smear Campaign #Other Harassment #Threats / Intimidation Location #Region: Americas #Mexico
Status: Harassment Miryam Vargas Teutle 15 April 2025New intimidating messages against woman human rights defender Miryam Vargas Teutle Violations #Smear Campaign #Other Harassment #Threats / Intimidation Location #Region: Americas #Mexico
Status: Smear campaign Nelton Rivera 9 April 2025Smear campaign and harassment against Nelton Rivera and other members of Prensa Comunitaria Violations #Smear Campaign Location #Region: Americas #Guatemala
Status: Conditional release Sarvenaz Ahmadi 9 January 2025Sarvenaz Ahmadi conditionally released from prison Violations #Reprisals #Smear Campaign #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Iran
Status: Sentenced in absentia Leila Hossein Zadeh 21 November 2024Leila Hossein Zadeh sentenced arbitrarily in absentia Violations #Smear Campaign #Judicial Harassment #Arbitrary detention #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Iran
Status: Defamed Umida Niyazova 7 May 2024Defamation attack against women human rights defenders Umida Niyazova and Sharifa Madrakhimova Violations #Verbal Abuse #Defamation #Smear Campaign #Threats / Intimidation Location #Region: Europe and Central Asia #Uzbekistan
Status: Harassment Zillur Rahman 13 September 2023Harassment against human rights defender and executive director of the Centre for Governance Studies, Zillur Rahman Violations #Smear Campaign #Surveillance #Other Harassment #Cyber-Attack Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Bangladesh
Status: Facing Harassment Maidul Islam 30 August 2023Academic activist and human rights defender Maidul Islam facing harassment from the Chittagong University for exercising freedom of expression Violations #Smear Campaign #Judicial Harassment #Other Harassment Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Bangladesh
