The global film community calls for the release of Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska
15/04/2021 - In an open letter addressed to the authorities, film festivals, organisations and institutions are expressing their concern regarding the arrest of the Belarusian festival director
The global film community has expressed its shock and concern over the arrest of Belarusian cultural activist and human rights defender Tatsiana (Tanya) Hatsura-Yavorska. The director of the International Film Festival WATCH DOCS Belarus was arrested in Minsk on the 5th of April, along with several other human rights defenders.
An open letter addressed to the Belarusian authorities, the Human Rights Film Network, the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk, the European Film Academy, along with film festivals, film networks, institutions and organisations from around the world are calling for the release of Hatsura-Yavorska and the other human rights defenders deprived of their freedom.
The global film community calls for the release of Tatsiana Hatsura-Yavorska
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NGOs urge Egyptian Authorities to Release Researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy
We, the undersigned 74 organizations, call upon the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release 29-year-old student and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who has been arbitrarily detained since 1 February 2021 on bogus terrorism-related charges. The undersigned organizations further call on the authorities to ensure prompt, independent, impartial, transparent, and effective investigations into Ahmed Samir Santawy’s allegations of being subjected to enforced disappearance and ill-treatment by security forces following his arrest.
The undersigned organizations consider that Ahmed Samir Santawy, a researcher and master’s student of anthropology at the Vienna-based Central European University (CEU), is arbitrarily detained solely because of his academic work focusing on women s rights, including the history of reproductive rights in Egypt.
Paris-Geneva, April 14, 2021 – Women human rights defenders in Nangarhar Province are at high risk of being killed following death threats issued by the Islamic State, alerted the Observatory (OMCT-FIDH). Afghan authorities must immediately take all necessary measures to ensure their safety and put an end to all forms of violence against women in the country.
In the first week of April 2021, the armed group Islamic State (IS) sent a statement to numerous organisations, women rights defenders, and female journalists operating in Nangarhar Province, to warn them that they would face a “hard death” should they pursue their human rights and media work.
Since the disputed elections in 2020, Belarus is experiencing a human rights crisis of unprecedented dimensions. The government has tortured and arrested hundreds of mostly peaceful protestors. Violations are committed with impunity and Human Rights Defenders are increasingly targeted. This is contrary to the recommendations from the Committee against Torture (CAT) given to Belarus in 2018 asking that (1) the government carry out effective investigations into allegations of torture, (2) that all detainees are afforded with fundamental legal safeguards and (3) that the government desist from detaining and prosecuting Human Rights Defenders. The OMCT together with Committee against Torture – Russia submitted a follow-up report in March 2021 to the CAT detailing Belarus failure in implementing those CAT recommendations.
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