#Iran: Tehran's Evin Prison after an Israeli strike. “… in addition to criminals, #EvinPrison is home to many #political #prisoners, including [woman #HumanRightsDefender] #NargesMohammad, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2025, as well as foreign detainees….[on map at link] red, blue, yellow & light green markers indicate…locations of the June 23, 2025 [Israeli] airstrikes… dark green circles highlight wards…where political prisoners are held...” | France24 https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250623-israel-strikes-evin-prison-tehran-attack-political-prisoners
#HumanRightsDefender
#Thailand vs. Dr. Chutima Sidasathian. 7 March 2025.
“A new report by TrialWatch & Covington & Burling LLP assigns a D grade to the trial of Dr. #ChutimaSidasathian, a Thai #journalist & #humanrightsdefender, citing strong evidence that the case is a #SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) aimed at silencing her reporting.” | Clooney Foundation for Justice https://cfj.org/reports/thailand-vs-dr-chutima-sidasathian/
Report: https://cfj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EN-Fairness-Report_Thailand_Chutima-Sidasathian-March-2025.pdf
คดีความระหว่างรัฐบาลไทย กับ
ดร. ชุติมา สีดาเสถียร https://cfj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/TH-Fairness-Report_Thailand_Chutima-Sidasathian-March-2025.pdf]
Thailand: Rights Activist Shot Dead in Deep South: #RoningDolah Assisted Malay Muslim Torture Victims. “Unidentified gunmen shot & killed a prominent #HumanRightsDefender in #Pattani province in southern #Thailand on June 25, 2024, Human Rights Watch said today. Thai authorities should urgently conduct a transparent & impartial investigation into the killing of Roning Dolah, 45, & bring those responsible to justice.” | HRW https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/27/thailand-rights-activist-shot-dead-deep-south
#Thailand: Amicus Curiae Brief: Case of Chutima Sidasathian หนังสือเพื่อนศาล ในคดีที่ดร.ชุติมา สีดาเสถียร เป็นจำเลย(คดีหมายเลขดำที่ 970/2566 ศาลจังหวัดนครราชสีมา). #HumanRightsDefender #ChutimaSidasathian faces trial 6-8 Feb24 on 3 counts of #CriminalDefamation for her FB posts raising questions about management of a community banking institution & actions of its chair. Villagers were forced to pay back loans they never received. ICJ: https://www.icj.org/thailand-abusive-lawsuit-targeting-human-rights-defender-must-be-dismissed/. LRWC: https://www.lrwc.org/thailand-amicus-curiae-brief-chutima-sidasathian/
Tomorrow the suspended hearing is scheduled in the case against Maya Q’eqchi HRD #CarlosErnestoChoc Chub in #Guatemala. He is facing charges related to his journalistic work reporting on the #environmental impacts of business activities in #Izabal.
In November 2023, several UN Special Procedure experts wrote to the Guatemalan Government about the judicial harassment against him: https://spcommreports.ohchr.org/TMResultsBase/DownLoadPublicCommunicationFile?gId=28492
@SFRCdems RT by @jooeysiiu: Theary Seng is a Cambodian-American lawyer and #HumanRights advocate. She's been imprisoned on bogus charges of "treason" because she dared speak out in support of #Democracy and a #FreePress in Cambodia. Learn more about this #HumanRightsDefender in our #TruthToPowerSeries⬇️ https://nitter.hongkongers.net/SFRCdems/status/1749904190506233958#m
The Mayo-Yoreme people denounce that the so-called justice plans of the federal government are being used to coopt community leaders.
👉 avispa.org/?p=109858
#MayoYoremeCommunity #HumanRightsDefender #IndigenousRights #IndigenousPeoples #CommunityEngagement #GovernmentPromises
#Thailand: #ChutimaSidasathien spoke at the recent #SLAPP conference in London about her experience as a #HumanRightsDefender charged with #CriminalDefamation in #Thailand after exposing human rights violations & corruption. She is facing trial in Thailand in February: https://www.facebook.com/share/2ZWM9BDTapCTm5do/?mibextid=WC7FNe. See videos of the Anti-SLAPP conference at Anti-SLAPP Conference 2023 2023 https://anti-slappconference.info/
#Thailand: “#Chutima Sidasathian, a…Thai investigative journalist turned community activist, has given a…speech in London aimed at sparking reforms to Thailand's… #CriminalDefamation laws… She faces a 3-day trial… because she exposed a community banking scandal in rural Thailand. See her speech:
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02r2SMBGMZeZsycRCZozQTdAGQLbvb1oNBpZBPB62BTfy9nopuKgtVZ8sSiNcBAuUDl&id=525583868&mibextid=cr9u03 #SLAPP #HumanRightsDefender
#Oaxaca: New Criminal Charge Filed Against Indigenous Land Defender in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
👉 avispa.org/?p=105421
#InteroceanicCorridor #IndigenousRights #DavidHernandezSalazar #HumanRightsDefender #LegalAction #IsthmusofTehuantepec #FrontLineDefenders #LegalRepresentation
#Philippines: Three years ago today, #HumanRightsDefender #ZaraAlvarez was murdered. Whenever communities on Negros were red-tagged, criminalized or threatened by violence, they would turn to her. Even after they put her in prison and threatened her and her family, she would not stop fighting for #HumanRights.
Three years later, there is still no accountability for her death. In the Philippines #impunity prevails
Belarus: 🇪🇺condemns the sentencing of #HumanRightsDefender Nasta Loyka to prison for a contribution to an independent #humanrights report in 2018. Freedom of expression is a fundamental right. Nasta & all political prisoners should be immediately released. https://apnews.com/article/belarus-human-rights-crackdown-18e389887170a6e7b33de45d03bb787c
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/ExtSpoxEU/status/1671448843576131586
@susurros i searched the #Mexico hashtag as I wanted to see whether there were any posts about the #Heatwave there, but instead found this - all the more upsetting.
RIP #WaterDefender Álvaro Arvizu Aguiñiga
RIP #HumanRightsDefender
Cuauhtémoc Márquez Fernández
How can we better support and protect human rights defenders? 🎉 My report on this issue was adopted by a large majority in Parliament today!
Here you can read more on what the report is all about:
#HumanRightsDefenders #HumanRightsDefender
RT @HNeumannMEP: 💙 Human Rights Defenders are our natural allies in the fight for #HumanRights, the rule of law, 🌳🌿 climate protection & democracy all over the 🌍.
What can 🇪🇺 do to support + protect them?
This is what my rep…
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1636354514818048000
Congrats @HNeumannMEP on an excellent & timely report! 🥳 And thanks to all colleagues for the great cooperation.
We need to #DefendTheDefenders
Read the report here👇
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/A-9-2023-0034_EN.html
RT @HNeumannMEP: How can we better support and protect human rights defenders? 🎉 My report on this issue was adopted by a large majority in Parliament today!
Here you can read more on what the report is all about:
#HumanRightsDefenders #HumanRightsDefender
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/katka_cseh/status/1636356054446383104
#India: Several #UN Special procedures mandates jointly call for the immediate release of #HumanRightsDefender #KhurramParvez
Today marks one year since #HumanRightsDefender #KhurramParvez was detained in #India for his peaceful activism to protect #HumanRights. His crime? Reporting on #EnforcedDisappearances in #JammuAndKashmir.
The Indian government must immediately release him and drop all charges.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender says Security Council’s statement violates Constitution
In a statement posted on Facebook on Monday, Armenia’s Human Rights Defender Arman Tatoyan said that the statement made by the country’s Security Council regarding Azerbaijan’s control of Syunik roads violates the Constitution.
Below is Tatoyan’s full statement in English.
Today's statement by Armenia’s Security Council in connection with the Goris-Kapan, Kapan-Chakaten highways violates Armenia’s Constitution as well as international human rights conditions.
- In particular, the November 15 Security Council statement refers to some unspecified USSR maps, and notes that the sections of the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten highways currently under Azerbaijani control are not in the territory of the Republic of Armenia.
Further, the Security Council statement speaks about the creation of a network of alternate roads, thus seemingly finding acceptable Azerbaijan’s control over the mentioned roads.
Armenia’s Human Rights Defender is convinced that with this statement by the Security Council, human rights norms are completely ignored, and Azerbaijani control over the mentioned roads violates the internationally recognized fundamental rights of the Armenian population, and guaranteed by the country’s Constitution.
- First, according to Article 2 of Armenia’s Constitution:
“a. The human being, his or her dignity, fundamental rights and freedoms are the highest values.
b. The State shall ensure the protection of fundamental human and citizen’s rights and freedoms, in conformity with the principles and norms of international law.
c. The State shall be bound by fundamental human and citizen’s rights and freedoms as directly applicable law.”
Chapter 2 of the Constitution guarantees the basic human rights and freedoms of a citizen.
Part 1 of Article 191 of Armenia’s Constitution stipulates that the Human Rights Defender ensures the protection of the human rights and freedoms violated by state and local self-government bodies and officials.
Article 52 of the Constitution enshrines the absolute constitutional right of every person to receive the assistance of the Human Rights Defender in the event of a violation of his or her rights and freedoms by the above-mentioned bodies and officials.
Among other international demands, the statement of the Security Council ignored the December 19, 2017 OSCE Official Guide on Delimitation and Demarcation of State Borders, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2021 guide on international human rights, etc. These guides enshrine human rights as a mandatory component of any cross-border process.The issue is that from September-November 2020 until today, including during the 2021 establishment of the so-called Azerbaijani border and customs checkpoints on the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten roads announced on November 10 and 14, the staff of Armenia’s Human Rights Defender has conducted on-site visits, sustained monitoring, and examined individual and collective complaints addressed to the Defender. And as a result, obtaining reliable facts ascertaining that the rights of the civilian population of Armenia to life, security, freedom of movement, physical and mental integrity, property, freedom of economic activity, the interests of the child, etc. have been violated since the arrival of the Azerbaijani armed forces on these roads. There are no mechanisms to protect these rights, prosecute violators, etc.
In particular, on the Goris-Kapan road, evidence of Azerbaijani actions violating the rights of the population of the Republic of Armenia were registered, including the deliberate closure of the road in the sections of Vorotan and Davit Bek on August 25-27, which deliberately isolated Nor Arajadzor, Bardzravan, Vorotan, Shurnukh communities and created a humanitarian crisis. Other acts included throwing stones at civilian vehicles, threatening with weapons civilian vehicles on the side of the road near Azerbaijani positions, stopping children on a bus for the purpose of intimidation, collecting illegal payments from Iranian citizens legally in Armenia, making other illegal demands from them such as car fuel, etc.
Six villages in the Kapan community - Chakaten, Shikahogh, Srashen, Tsavi, Nerkin Hand, Shishkert - face serious humanitarian problems due to the so-called Azerbaijani checkpoint on Kapan-Chakaten road. In addition, the facts confirm that after the war, the presence of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces in different parts of the road itself disrupted the free movement of civilians in these areas. There were reports of them appearing on the sidewalk with weapons and masks (including on November 14). It should be remembered that on February 26, 2021, this road was closed for several hours due to a provocation by the Azerbaijani armed forces.
Another important consideration: the construction of alternative roads does not eliminate the real threats posed by Azerbaijani armed and masked Azerbaijani servicemen present on the Goris-Kapan and Kapan-Chakaten roads. Their presence threatens the life and security of the population of the Republic of Armenia and especially those of the residents of the communities adjacent to Azerbaijani posts.
The Azerbaijani soldiers who tortured and killed our servicemen and civilians during the war and who were not punished are now the ones stationed on the Goris-Kapan, Kapan-Chakaten roads.
Following the war, the Azerbaijani authorities deepened their propaganda of hatred of Armenians and hostility and enmity. The Azerbaijani Armed Forces found themselves on these roads through the threat of war and genocidal policy (these facts are confirmed by evidence).
There has been no delimitation or demarcation of borders between the two countries.
Therefore, the presence of the Azerbaijani armed forces near our villages and on the roads is a violation of the rights of the Armenian population.
Any part of Armenia’s governing authority, including the Security Council of the Republic of Armenia, is obliged to be guided, including in its statements, by human rights requirements. It cannot make statements that violate or endanger human rights or make their protection impossible.
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#reportsinenglish #chakaten #constiution #goris #humanrightsdefender #humanrightsviolations #kapan #osce #securitycouncil #tatoyan
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