Status: Acquitted Kaddour Chouicha 7 March 2025Human rights Defenders Said Boudour, Kaddour Chouicha, and Jamila Loukil acquitted of all charges Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Algeria
Status: Acquitted Jamila Loukil 7 March 2025Human rights Defenders Said Boudour, Kaddour Chouicha, and Jamila Loukil acquitted of all charges Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Algeria
Status: Acquitted Said Boudour 7 March 2025Human rights Defenders Said Boudour, Kaddour Chouicha, and Jamila Loukil acquitted of all charges Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Algeria
Status: Released Mohad Gasmi 7 March 2025Human Rights Defender Mohad Gasmi Released from Prison Violations #Arbitrary detention Location #Region: Middle East and North Africa #Algeria
Status: Acquitted Maria Ressa 5 March 2025Court of Tax Appeals upholds the acquittal of woman human rights defender and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and the news network Rappler on charges of tax evasion Violations #Judicial Harassment Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Philippines
Status: Released Samat Matsakov 4 March 2025Human rights defender and lawyer Samat Matsakov released from pre-trial detention Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arbitrary detention #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Europe and Central Asia #Kyrgyzstan
Status: Upcoming hearing Myrna “Micah” Cruz-Abraham 4 March 2025Woman human rights defender Myrna Cruz-Abraham pleads not guilty on ‘frustrated’ murder allegation Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arbitrary detention Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Philippines
Status: Judicial harassment Sazzadur Rahman (Rakhal Raha) 4 March 2025Escalating death threats and legal persecution against human rights defender Sazzadur Rahman Violations #Judicial Harassment #Threats / Intimidation Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Bangladesh
Status: Detained Zhanar Sekerbayeva 3 March 2025Woman human rights defender Zhanar Sekerbayeva detained for 10 days Violations #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Europe and Central Asia #Kazakhstan
Status: Arbitrary detention Ringrong Mro 25 February 2025Indigenous land rights defender Ringrong Mro arbitrarily detained in Bandarban District Jail on trumped-up charges Violations #Arbitrary detention Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Bangladesh
Status: Judicial Harassment Sleydo’ 25 February 2025Court rules RCMP abused its power in criminalisation of three Wet'suwet'en defenders Violations #Judicial Harassment Location #Region: Americas #Canada