Oct 15, 2021 | News
Washington, D.C. – The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found the Government of Kazakhstan violated international human rights law by imprisoning eight Muslim men who were members of a religious-themed WhatsApp group. Responding to a legal...
Oct 13, 2021 | News
Washington, D.C. – On October 12, 2021, Freedom Now and the international law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Turkmen lawyer Pygamberdy Allaberdyev. The petition argues that Turkmenistan’s...
Sep 27, 2021 | News
Freedom Now welcomes the release of journalist Mohamed al-Bambary from wrongful detention in Morocco. Al-Bambary was released on September 26, 2021, a month after completing a six-year prison sentence related to his reporting and activism. “We are grateful that...
Sep 22, 2021 | News
The shockingly swift takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban caught much of the Western world off guard. The still evolving transition and eventual repercussions of the change in power will have global implications for many years to come. While governments scramble to...
Sep 8, 2021 | News
Washington, D.C. – On September 7, 2021, Freedom Now filed a petition with the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of Sri Lankan poet Ahnaf Jazeem. The petition argues that Sri Lanka’s detention of Jazeem is related to the legitimate exercise of his...
Aug 9, 2021 | News
His Excellency Yerlan Turgumbayev Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan Tauelsizdik Avenue 1 Nur-Sultan 010000 Republic of Kazakhstan Dear Minister Turgumbayev, We, the undersigned international human rights organizations, are writing to express...
