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Amid campus crackdowns, Gaza war triggers freedom of expression crisis

| Opinion, Top-line

25 April 2024 Human Rights Across the United States, “heads are rolling” at the top of some Ivy League universities amid a campus-wide crackdown on students protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, shining a spotlight on the question of freedom of expression worldwide, said...

Iran: UN experts alarmed by death sentence imposed on rapper and songwriter, Toomaj Salehi

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GENEVA (25 April 2024) – UN experts* today demanded the immediate release of rapper and songwriter Toomaj Salehi and urged Iranian authorities to reverse the decision to sentence him to death. “Criticism of government policy, including through artistic expression is...

Cambodia must end harassment of human rights defenders: UN experts

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GENEVA (19 April 2024) – UN experts* today called on Cambodia to end all acts of harassment and prosecution against human rights defenders and civil society activists, and allow them to freely exercise their civil and political rights. “We are seeing practices that...

UN experts deeply concerned over ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza

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GENEVA (18 April 2024) – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over the pattern of attacks on schools, universities, teachers, and students in the Gaza Strip, raising serious alarm over the systemic destruction of the Palestinian education system. “With more than...

Israel/Gaza: UN experts condemn destruction of judicial infrastructure, call for protection of justice operators

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GENEVA (16 April 2024) – UN experts* today called for the protection of justice operators in Israel and condemned the destruction of judicial infrastructure in Gaza. The experts deplored reports that on 9 October 2023 the Israeli army bombed the building which housed...
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