Category: Media Monitoring
Malaysia: Former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim must be freed
Kuala Lumpur, Paris, 10 December 2015 – Malaysian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and allow him to receive proper medical attention, FIDH and its member organization Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM) said today on the 10-month anniversary of Anwar’s latest imprisonment. Anwar is currently incarcerated in Sungai Buloh prison, Selangor […]
First sentence under the new anti-protest legislation in Russia: Three years for Ildar Dadin while two more activists face conviction
Paris, Moscow, 11 December 2015 – FIDH and its member organisation “Anti-Discrimination Centre Memorial” strongly condemn the sentence of Russian human rights activist Ildar Dadin to three years in closed detention facility for merely expressing his views. Ildar Dadin is famous for organising stand-alone protests holding banners with inscriptions criticizing Russia’s government policies. In a […]
AZERBAIJAN: Leyla Yunus released on probation!
Geneva-Paris, December 10, 2015 – The Baku Court of Appeal commuted yesterday the sentence against Ms. Leyla Yunus and Mr. Arif Yunusov to a release on probation for 5 years. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint OMCT-FIDH programme) welcomes this long-awaited decision which follows months of intensive struggle for their […]
Mali: The attacks in Bamako and Kidal are to be added to the long list of war crimes and crimes against humanity
Bamako – Paris, 7 December 2015 – FIDH, its member organisation in Mali, AMDH, and 13 Malian civil society organisations, strongly condemn the attacks perpetrated on November 20, 2015 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako and on November 28 in Kidal, which may be qualified as international crimes according to the Statute of the […]
Pakistan: USCIRF Condemns Attack on Ahmadis
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the heinous attack on an Ahmadi Muslim factory and mosque on November 21 and 22 in the Jehlum district located in the Punjab province. “USCIRF strongly condemns this attack against the Ahmadi […]
UN resolution for protection of HR defenders
(Geneva, New-York, Paris) The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint FIDH-OMCT programme) commends the passing of a United Nations General Assembly resolution on the protection of human rights defenders in the Third Committee yesterday. At a time when human rights defenders have come under increasing pressure amidst a growing crackdown on […]
Condolence on Paris and Saint Denis shooting and bombing
On behalf of the National Commission for Justice and Peace, a rights based organization of Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, strongly condemns the tragic attack of shooting and bombing on innocent people of Paris and Saint Denis in France on November 13, 2015. As per the reports ISIS has taken the responsibility of killing 129 people […]
SAHR congratulates the people of Nepal on adoption of the new Constitution
Nepal promulgated its new constitution on Sept. 20, 2015 by a majority of the Constituent Assembly. South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, welcomes this as an important event in Nepal’s progress towards democracy. SAHR is deeply concerned, however, that the continuing blockade of goods along the Indo-Nepal border […]
Human Rights Commissioner marks World Day against the Death Penalty
Islamabad: Christoph Strässer, Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office, issued the following statement on 10 October, the World Day against the Death Penalty: “To mark the World Day against the Death Penalty today, we are calling for a worldwide effort to abolish capital punishment! I encourage […]
NCHR report on Kasur child abuse
Islamabad: The National Commission for Human Rights has issued the report of its fact-finding mission that probed the Kasur incident of child abuse. The commission has make the following observations and recommendations: OBSERVATIONS: That, children were sexually abused in village Hussain Khan Wala, Distt Kasur on large scale since 2010.Victims and their parents were being […]
