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The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights… ...
URGENT APPEAL - THE OBSERVATORY KEN 002 / 0725 / OBS 045 Arbitrary detention / Release / Judicial harassment / Restriction to ...
July 29, 2025 H.M. King Mohammed VI Rabat, Morocco Your Majesty, We are writing to request that the government of Morocco ...
Le 26 novembre 2009, la chambre correctionnelle du Tribunal de grande instance de Tunis a reconnu M. Taoufik Ben Brik, journaliste et co-fondateur du Conseil national pour les libertés en Tunisie ...
GEO 003 / 0725 / OBS 044 Arbitrary detention / Judicial harassment / Restriction to freedom of expression/ Restriction to ...
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT), along with the undersigned organisations, urge the European Union (EU) to put forward the ongoing human rights crisis in China ...
A coalition of human rights organisations — the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), the World Organisation ...
Case SDN 100702.1 / 100702.1.CC Torture / Fair trial / Death penalty Geneva, July 23rd, 2002 The International Secretariat of OMCT has received new information concerning the following situation in ...
Last April, the United Nations Committee Against Torture reviewed Ukraine’s state on torture. The Committee especially examined the conditions seen in detention facilities, the increase in deaths in ...
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) expresses deep concern over the case of Mr Nelson Amenya, a Kenyan whistleblower who has courageously spoken out against ...
In the days that followed the attack, the Iranian authorities undertook mass prisoner transfers, relocating surviving inmates—many of whom, human rights defenders, journalists, and activists—to other ...