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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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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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14 January 2025, GENEVA – A group of independent human rights experts* today expressed grave concern at the Iranian Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentence handed down to Ms. Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish woman activist and social worker. “The charges...
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2 September 2024, GENEVA – UN experts* today expressed alarm over a surge in executions during the month of August 2024 and urged the Islamic Republic of Iran to immediately stop the execution of people facing the death penalty. At least 93 individuals were executed...
