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1 May 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed deep concern today over reports indicating that individuals subjected to enforced disappearance may have died in custody under conditions that could amount to torture. “When a person is forcibly disappeared, every...
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28 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today urged the Court in Algiers to quash the trial of the poet Mohamed Tadjadit, warning that the reclassified charges against him carry the penalty of death. “We are deeply concerned by the decision of the Algiers Court last...
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24 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today condemned the murder of Iraqi human rights defender Yanar Mohamed in March by unknown perpetrators and urged the government to act swiftly to ensure accountability. “The Government of Iraq must ensure the protection of women...
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22 April 2026, GENEVA – There is no rationale for the continued detention of Sikh British national, Jagtar Singh Johal, who was abducted during a visit to India to get married, and has now spent over eight years – 3089 days – in prison without a foreseeable end to his...
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20 April 2026, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed grave concern over allegations of prolonged incommunicado detention and detention conditions at a Navapolatsk Correctional Colony in Belarus. “Information we have received indicates deeply alarming detention...
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15 April 2026, GENEVA – Legislation penalising information perceived as “promoting” consensual same-sex relations, healthcare for transgender persons or reproductive autonomy that was recently adopted in Belarus will institutionalise discrimination and significantly...
