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I was wrongfully imprisoned abroad. The US must do more to help people like me.
I know firsthand what the U.S. government is capable of when it mobilizes resources and prioritizes democracy. But there is ...
The Financial Times22d
The true cost of arbitrary detention
He is lead counsel for Alaa Abd El-Fattah On Tuesday, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued a damning decision against Egypt: the continued imprisonment of Alaa Abd El-Fattah — a ...
Human Rights Watch14d
Niger: Six Month-Long Arbitrary Detention of Human Rights Defender Moussa Tiangari Must End
Niger’s authorities should immediately release civil society activist and human rights defender Moussa Tiangari and stop ...
Tanzanian politician's lawyers ask UN to declare his detention arbitrary
Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group ...
Australian jailed in Iraq conditionally released after four years
An Australian man has been conditionally released from prison in Iraq, after four years of what the UN has called arbitrary ...
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Tanzanian politician's lawyers ask UN to declare his detention arbitrary
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Lawyers for Tanzania's jailed opposition leader Tundu Lissu filed a complaint on Friday to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in a bid to ramp up ...