Global call initiated by Human Rights Watch on the Beijing 2022 Olympics. FIDU and other 242 NGOs are urging governments to join a diplomatic boycott of the Games and for athletes and sponsors not to legitimize government abuses. The 2022 […]
This report, published jointly by 11 civil society organisations, is based on data, video and photo materials from eyewitnesses, activists, human rights defenders, peaceful protesters from more than 60 cities and villages in Kazakhstan, where protests were held in the […]
5 January, 2022 The international community should urgently impose personal sanctions on the Kazakhstani authorities to avoid bloodshed and an increase in mass repression of peaceful protesters. In Kazakhstan, since 2 January 2022, tens of thousands of people have gone […]
In a new case-making by MOIS (Ministry of Intelligence and Security), the regime’s Judiciary in Khuzestan Province has indicted political prisoner Merhan Qarehbaghi with new charges including “corruption on earth”, “propagating against the state” and “membership in People’s Mojahedin Organization […]
FIDU – Italian Federation for Human Rights – Italian Helsinki Committee – promotes the protection of human rights and the rule of law through monitoring and reporting activities carried out worldwide. After receiving information about Vladislav Bîcu’s case, having followed […]
The report, titled The Crackdown, reveals that more than 1,600 lawyers have been arrested and prosecuted while 615 lawyers have been remanded to pretrial detention. Subsequently, 474 lawyers have been sentenced to a total of 2,966 years in prison on […]
Political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, born in 1975, has been confined for 12 years now. At the beginning of March 2021, after 11 years in prison she was banished to Semnan Prison, 220 km away from her family. Force and violence […]
The CommEUnication Consortium, within the framework of its project, aimed to counter euroscepticism, to tackle disinformation and to promote a deeper understanding of the EU among their citizens, has launched 6 local trainings to equip participants with an understanding of […]
The Arrested Lawyers Initiative published a new report titled ‘Legal and Technical Issues Around Turkey’s Malicious Bylock Prosecutions‘ on criminalization of the usage of Bylock app that victimized more than 90,000 individuals. “Bylock data is not lawful and admissible evidence […]
The Italian Federation for Human Rights received worrying information about the serious health condition of the political prisoner Abolhassan Montazer in Iran. Abolhassan Montazer, 62 years old, is suffering from type 1 diabetes and its complications; he needs insulin injection […]