#Smear Campaign Cases

Smear CampaignCases

Smear campaign and harassment against Nelton Rivera and other members of Prensa Comunitaria

#Smear Campaign

#Region: Americas

Conditional release

Sarvenaz Ahmadi

Sarvenaz Ahmadi

Sarvenaz Ahmadi conditionally released from prison

#Smear Campaign

#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment

#Region: Middle East and North Africa

Sentenced in absentia

Leila Hosseinzadeh

Leila Hossein Zadeh

21 November 2024

Leila Hossein Zadeh sentenced arbitrarily in absentia

#Smear Campaign

#Judicial Harassment

#Arbitrary detention

#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment

#Region: Middle East and North Africa

Woman human rights defender Suneeta Pottam arrested on fabricated charges

#Smear Campaign

#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment

#Region: Asia Pacific

Defamation attack against women human rights defenders Umida Niyazova and Sharifa Madrakhimova

#Smear Campaign

#Threats / Intimidation

#Region: Europe and Central Asia

Zillur Rahman

13 September 2023

Harassment against human rights defender and executive director of the Centre for Governance Studies, Zillur Rahman

#Smear Campaign

#Other Harassment

#Region: Asia Pacific

Facing Harassment

Maidul Islam

Academic activist and human rights defender Maidul Islam facing harassment from the Chittagong University for exercising freedom of expression

#Smear Campaign

#Judicial Harassment

#Other Harassment

#Region: Asia Pacific

Kamyar Fakour

Sarvenaz Ahmadi and Kamyar Fakour denied amnesty

#Smear Campaign

#Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment

#Region: Middle East and North Africa

Judicial Harassment

Human Rights Centre 'Viasna'

Homiel branch of human rights organisation Viasna labelled as extremist organisation

#Smear Campaign

#Judicial Harassment

#Other Harassment

#Region: Europe and Central Asia

The Belarusian Association of Journalists

Belarusian Association of Journalists’ website, social media and logo declared “extremist”

#Smear Campaign

#Other Harassment

#Region: Europe and Central Asia

HRD

Abdureshit Dzhepparov

Crimea (Ukraine): Abdureshit Dzhepparov fined for alleged “discrediting of Russian army”

#Smear Campaign

#Judicial Harassment

#Region: Europe and Central Asia

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