After a complaint by the Committee for Justice, UN calls for the release of Egyptian activists and an end to their prolonged detention

30/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 15 July 2021 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, […]

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UN concerned about detention and torture of an Algerian activist for filming police assaults on protesters

30/07/2021

News briefing Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 26 July 2021 UN experts have issued a memorandum on the case of Algerian activist, […]

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UN concerned about the killing of a human rights defender and the conviction of another human rights defender in Sudan because of their human rights work 

29/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 27 July 2021 UN experts have sent a UN memorandum to the Sudanese government regarding the killing of […]

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UN concerned about the continued detention and conviction of 20 human rights defenders in Saudi Arabia

29/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 July 2021 United Nations human rights experts have expressed their concerns to Saudi authorities […]

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Bachelet: Revelations regarding the use of spyware to surveil journalists and human rights defenders are extremely alarming

29/07/2021

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, stressed that the revelations that Pegasus, an Israeli spyware, was used to spy on journalists, human rights […]

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UN calls for end to discrimination and violence against Palestinians in Israel and against Negev Bedouins

28/07/2021

News briefing Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 27 July 2021 A group of United Nations human rights experts have renewed their concerns about recent […]

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UN urges quickly holding Palestinian elections, calls on Israel to allow the participation of the people of East Jerusalem 

26/07/2021

News briefing: Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 26 July 2021 UN experts called on the Palestinian Authority and Israel, the occupying power, […]

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Human Rights Council appoints members of the Commission of Inquiry in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel

25/07/2021

News briefing Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 25 July 2021 The President of the Human Rights Council, Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan (Fiji), […]

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International Commission of Inquiry on Syria: ‘The country remains far from a safe environment for civilians’

17/07/2021

News briefing:     Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice    Geneva, 14 July 2021    The head of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian […]

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Egypt: Zyad Elelaimy and Ramy Shaath’s inclusion on the ‘Terrorist List’ is a shameful outcome of a politicized judiciary

15/07/2021

Yesterday July 14, the Court of Cassation rejected the appeals of human rights defenders Zyad Elelaimy, Ramy Shaath, and eleven others regarding their inclusion on […]

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UN condemns UAE’s forced deportation of a former Guantanamo detainee to Russia despite the risk of torture 

14/07/2021

News briefing   Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN experts have expressed serious concerns about the imminent forcible return of former […]

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UN fears that the lives of two Egyptian brothers were endangered after their arrest and torture following the 2013 military coup

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice Geneva: July 13, 2021 UN experts have expressed their concern about the suffering of the two brothers, […]

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UN experts stress the need to stop attacks against critics and demonstrators in Ramallah and hold those responsible to account

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 UN human rights experts have expressed serious concerns about a number of attacks by […]

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UN Special Rapporteur: ‘Israeli settlements are a war crime’

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and Edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 Michael Lynk, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian […]

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Interactive dialogue at the Human Rights Council with the International Commission of Inquiry in Syria, with recommendations to establish a mechanism to find missing persons

14/07/2021

News briefing  Translated and edited by: Committee for Justice  Geneva: 12 July 2021 The Human Rights Council on 6 July held an interactive dialogue with the Independent International […]

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