Arbitrary Detention
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights demands immediate release of Somali journalist and human rights defender Abdalle Ahmed Mumin
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights strongly condemns the arbitrary arrest and detention of Abdalle Ahmed Mumin, Somali journalist, human rights activist, and Secretary General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) and urges Somali authorities to immediately release him and end all harassment, intimidation, threats, and violence against journalists and civil society activists in…
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Modern Decolonization: The Role of the UN and the Responsibility of All of Us
Tags Share In December 1960, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, Resolution 1514 XV, better known as the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. Resolution 1514 proclaims “the necessity of bringing to a speedy and unconditional end colonialism in all its forms and manifestations” and asserts that…
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Haitian Bridge Alliance v. DHS: Exposing Anti-Black Discrimination at the Border
This case is a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking documents related to the mass detention and expulsion of more than 15,000 people at the U.S. southern border in Del Rio, Texas in September 2021. The majority of those expelled were Haitian and other Black immigrants.
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Bangladesh: UN Rights Chief Should Raise Concerns
Tags Share UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet should publicly call for an immediate end to serious abuses including extrajudicial killings, torture, and enforced disappearances during her upcoming visit to Bangladesh, nine human rights organizations said today. Bachelet will visit Bangladesh from August 14-18, 2022. During the trip, she will meet with government…
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#RFKChat: We are very concerned about surveillance and internet shutdowns, says CPJ’s Gypsy Guillén Kaiser
Tags Share On Tuesday May 31, 2022, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights hosted a Tweet Chat with Gypsy Guillén Kaiser, Director of Advocacy and Communications at the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The conversation, our second on the issue of press freedom in the month of May, focused on the challenges journalists currently face, from…
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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins Somali organizations in calling for the immediate release of detained journalists in Somaliland
Tags Share Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins the Somali Journalists Syndicate and the Somali Media Association in condemning the retaliatory detention of 15 journalists in Hargeisa, and calls on Somaliland authorities to immediately release the three detained journalists who remain in detention. On April 13, Somaliland police and intelligence service officers arrested a group…
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#FreeRusesabagina calls on the Rwandan government to release Hotel Rwanda star from arbitrary detention
Tags Share It has been close to 600 days since Anaise Kanimba hugged her father, Paul Rusesabagina. Close to 600 days since she’s even been able to look him in the eye. Rusesabagina, the Hotel Rwanda hero who’s been arbitrarily detained by the Rwandan government he has spoken out against, remains in prison without access…
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Panel discussion to support real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina
Don Cheadle, Kerry Kennedy, and Terry George invite you to an exclusive panel to support Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life hero of Hotel Rwanda on April 13, 2022. Register today!
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Bangladesh: Stop Reprisals Against Victims, Activists
Tags Share Bangladesh authorities have responded to US Treasury Department sanctions on the notoriously abusive Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) by retaliating against victims’ relatives, human rights defenders and their families, and human rights organizations, twelve organizations said today. The US imposed the sanctions on the paramilitary unit and several of its current and former officials…
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Investigative Post: Allegations of ICE Mistreatment of Detainees
Tags Share According to the Investigative Post, a coalition of immigrants’ rights advocates, including Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, has filed a FOIA request with ICE, alleging severe mistreatment at the Batavia federal detention center. The allegations include beatings, medical neglect, and unsafe release practices, such as abandoning detainees at remote locations without proper clothing…
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UN Confirms that Rwandan Authorities Abducted and Are Arbitrarily Detaining Paul Rusesabagina
Tags Share Following a petition filed by Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in March 2021, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) found that the Rwandan government abducted and has arbitrarily detained the Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina for over 20 months. Requesting his immediate, unconditional release and an independent investigation of his…
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Civil society organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop the case of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy and release him immediately
Tags Share 14 March 2022 Today, the Egyptian Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) will hold a second session in the retrial of researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy.* The undersigned organizations call on Egyptian authorities to drop this case and release Santawy immediately. In June 2021, the ESSC sentenced Santawy to a four year prison sentence on…
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