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Jiang Tianyong

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  • China
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Jiang Tianyong is a prominent human rights lawyer and legal rights activist from China. He has been working at the grassroots level to defend land and housing rights, promote the rights of vulnerable social groups and expose the root causes of systemic rights abuses.

He defended high-profile cases in China, including clients with HIV, Falun Gong practitioners, Tibetan protesters and victims of the 2008 milk scandal.

Despite being arbitrarily disbarred by the government in 2009, Jiang has tirelessly continued his valuable human rights work to improve the situation in China. He has persisted in denouncing human rights violations in his country and supported numerous well-known human rights defenders unlawfully detained.

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Comité de Familiares de Víctimas del Caracazo, Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social, Centro de Justicia y Paz, Control Ciudadano and it director Carlos Correa

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  • Venezuela
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Comité de Familiares de Víctimas del Caracazo (COFAVIC), Observatorio Venezolano de Conflictividad Social (OVCS), Centro de Justicia y Paz (CEPAZ), Control Ciudadano and Espacio Público are five non-governmental organisations working for the promotion of human rights in Venezuela.

The organisations have a history of engaging with UN human rights bodies and mechanisms, a crucial effort given the multidimensional crisis that Venezuela is experiencing, with whom they have denounced abuses in the country, including with the Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela (FFM) established by the Human Rights Council in 2019. The FFM’s mandate includes the investigation of gross human rights violations in the country since 2014 and relies greatly on valuable information communicated by civil society groups such as those mentioned above.

All five NGOs have been stigmatised and discredited publicly and on social media by high-ranking State officials for their collaboration with the United Nations, including and specifically naming the directors of Control Ciudadano, Rocío San Miguel, and Espacio Público, Carlos Correa.

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Human Rights Center ‘Viasna’

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  • Belarus
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The Human Right Center ‘Viasna’ is a non-governmental organisation actively working for the development of civil society and the promotion of human rights in Belarus, also providing legal aid to people in defending their rights and public interests.

Viasna has a long-standing history of cooperation with the United Nations human rights bodies and mechanisms, which has increased amid the ongoing crackdown on human rights defenders and organisations in Belarus.

Due to its engagement with the UN, Viasna has been subjected to continuous acts of harassment and intimidation at the hands of the government, including the raiding of their offices and the arbitrary detention of its members.

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Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy

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  • Egypt
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Ibrahim Metwally Hegazy is a human rights defender and lawyer working on the issue of enforced disappearances. He is a co-founder and the coordinator of the Association of the Families of the Disappeared in Egypt.

The network focuses on assisting families in locating and investigating the fate of forcibly or involuntarily disappeared loved ones. Metwally Hegazy founded the organisaton following the disappearance of his own son in July 2013, whose whereabouts remain unknown.

In September 2017, while on his way to Geneva at the invitation of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances, he was disappeared for two days, and was subsequently arbitrarily detained. Five years later, he is still in detention.

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Vanessa Mendoza Cortés

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  • Andorra
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Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is a psychologist and the president of Associació Stop Violències Andorra, which focuses on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive rights, and advocates for safe and legal abortion in Andorra. Andorra enforces a total ban on abortions.

Associació Stop Violències Andorra supports pregnant women and girls to access abortions abroad and speaks out to demand access to safe and legal abortion in Andorra. Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is the main spokesperson for the organisation.

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Maryam al-Balushi and Amina al-Abduli

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  • United Arab Emirates
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Amina Al-Abdouli is 42 years old. She is a mother of five, three girls and two boys who were all under 18 at the time of her arrest. She used to work as a school teacher She was advocating for the Arab Spring and sympathised especially with the Syrian uprising.

Maryam Al Balushi, 27 years old, was a student at the College of Technology.

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Kadar Abdi Ibrahim

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  • Djibouti
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Kadar Abdi Ibrahim is a human rights defender and journalist from Djibouti. He has drawn inspiration from historic figures in the human rights movement in the hopes of building a solid and lasting democracy in his country.

From 2015, Kadar was the co-director and chief editor of L’Aurore, Djibouti’s only privately-owned media outlet. In 2016, the newspaper was banned following the publication of a story on one of the victims of the Buldhuqo massacre, crackdown by Djibouti security forces on a religious celebration and a meeting of the opposition on 21 December 2015 that left at least 27 people dead. Kadar is also the president of the political party Movement for Democracy and Freedom (MoDEL) since December 2021. Over the years, Kadar has been arrested several times by the police in an attempt to silence him.

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Anexa Alfred Cunningham

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  • Nicaragua
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[This case has not been included in any Secretary-General reports. ISHR has been campaigning for it to be recognised as a case of reprisals].

Anexa Alfred Cunningham is a Miskitu Indigenous leader, woman human rights defender, lawyer and expert on Indigenous Peoples’ rights from Nicaragua. She defends the ancestral land and natural resources of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. She has also worked with Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities to investigate the many abuses they suffer and denounce them to the United Nations. These Peoples face attacks by armed groups who seek to take away their ancestral territory with the State’s approval.

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Chair of National Commission for Human Rights of Pakistan

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Pakistan
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Treaty Bodies: CAT
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Epimack Kwokwo

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Rwanda
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
Location of mentioned reprisals
border between Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda; Kigali
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Robert Mugabe

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Rwanda
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
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Four journalists

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Engagement with UN body
  • Other
  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
Location of mentioned reprisals
Biakato
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Detainees at Ablangandan gendarmerie station and Cotonou prison

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • Benin
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Treaty Bodies: SPT
Location of mentioned reprisals
Agblangandan; Cotonou
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Persons deprived of liberty in Mocoví and San Pedro prisons

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • Bolivia
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Treaty Bodies: SPT
Location of mentioned reprisals
Mocoví and San Pedro prisons
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Norwegian People’s Aid

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Israel
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
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Survivors of airstrikes targeting Daman building complex

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Libya
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
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Li Xiaoling

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • China
Engagement with UN body
  • Unclear
Location of mentioned reprisals
Zhuhai City
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25 human rights defenders and other members of civil society

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Cambodia
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Country Team
Location of mentioned reprisals
Kampong Thom Province
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Relatives of convicted IRPT members

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Tajikistan
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Country Team
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Nine human rights defenders

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Peace Operation / Political mission
Location of mentioned reprisals
Masisi territory of North Kivu
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Alma Delia Reyna

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Mexico
Engagement with UN body
  • OHCHR: OHCHR Field office
Location of mentioned reprisals
Tamaulipas
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Preemptive statement made to ensure no reprisals will occur

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • Myanmar (Burma)
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Group of 15 people who engaged with HRC

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2011
From Country
  • Malawi
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
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Victims and witnesses

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Eritrea
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Special Procedures: country
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Independent Investigation
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Members of the Cubalex Legal Information Center

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Cuba
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UPR
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Azza Soliman

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Egypt
Engagement with UN body
  • Unclear
Location of mentioned reprisals
Cairo
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Participants of UN-organized activities

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2020
From Country
  • South Sudan
Engagement with UN body
  • Unclear
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Henrique Capriles

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Venezuela
Engagement with UN body
  • UN (Dep.) High Commissioner on Human Rights
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General situation addressed

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2017
From Country
  • Venezuela
Engagement with UN body
  • Other
  • Unclear
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Bahraini Human Rights Defenders and Journalists

Relevant SG report
  • SG Report 2019
From Country
  • Bahrain
Engagement with UN body
  • UN Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Council - General
  • UN Treaty Bodies: UN Treaty Bodies - General
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Unclear
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