Jabbar Oyhangi, a 52-year-old Kurdish civil activist, has been missing for over 10 days after being arrested by the Islamic Republic’s intelligence agents in Sanandaj. Oyhangi was detained on January …
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On 18 January 2025, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant for the arrest of Osama Elmasry Njeem, also known as Osama Almasri Njeem, in connection with war crimes …
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Jackson Kuria, better known as Cop Shakur, gained recognition for his participation in the June 2024 protests against the Finance Bill 2024. Recently, he was arrested and charged with mutiny, …
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Security forces in the Islamic Republic have arrested 30-year-old civil and environmental activist, Fardin Mahmoudi, in Piranshahr. His detention marks the third recent arrest in the city. Mahmoudi was taken …
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Russia has handed lengthy prison sentences to three lawyers who had defended opposition leader Alexei Navalny, convicted for relaying messages from the imprisoned figure to the outside world. The verdicts …
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A Catholic priest in Belarus, Rev. Henrykh Akalatovich, was sentenced to 11 years in prison on Monday after being convicted of high treason for criticizing the government. This marks the …
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A French court has convicted Charles Onana, a 60-year-old Cameroonian author, and his publisher, Damien Serieyx, for minimizing the Rwandan genocide in Onana’s 2019 book, Rwanda, The Truth About Operation …
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Manuel Guerrero Aviña, a 44-year-old British-Mexican man, has been sentenced to six months in prison, suspended, after being arrested in Qatar. His arrest occurred in February during what his family …
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Emmanuel Nabugodi, a 21-year-old Ugandan TikTok content creator, has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for creating a video deemed insulting to President Yoweri Museveni. Nabugodi, who is known …
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Kizza Besigye, a retired army colonel and prominent opposition figure in Uganda, has denied accusations made against him during a military court appearance. Besigye, 68, who has long been a …