Miraziz Bazarov, a blogger from Uzbekistan, is an outspoken critic of government policies and the human rights situation in Uzbekistan. In March Bazarov complained on his TikTok and Telegram channels about numerous threats – online, by phone and in person – of...
Freedom Now congratulates Loujain Alhathloul as the 2020 recipient of the Václav Havel Human Rights Prize. Alhathloul is the eighth individual to receive the Council of Europe’s Prize and the first from Saudi Arabia. “We are grateful that in such a tumultuous year the...
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has issued an opinion finding the Government of Iran to be in contravention of its international human rights obligations for the detention of Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. Responding to...
On 13 February 2021, it was revealed that Professor G.N. Saibaba tested positive for COVID-19. This is an extremely dangerous development, given that he already suffers from serious ongoing health problems, including heart and kidney issues. We, the undersigned, are...
Washington, D.C. – On February 12, 2021, Freedom Now and the law firm McKool Smith filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Kazakh human rights activist Alnur Ilyashev. The petition argues that Kazakhstan’s detention of Ilyashev...
