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Express proceedings against demonstrators
After the wave of protests in July 2021, the arrested demonstrators will now be sentenced despite court breaks established by the authorities. The defendants are not granted a lawyer to challenge the scant evidence. The judicial break is used to prevent appeals.
Interview with John Suarez, Executive Director Center for a Free Cuba
The International Society for Human Rights spoke with John Suárez, Executive Director of Center for a Free Cuba. He answered questions about the current protests and the socio-economic outbreak that the Cuban people live, as well as the repression and persecution of the Cuban regime against those who criticize it.
Germany should show solidarity with the democracy movement
The nationwide protests show that Cuba's population joins the democracy movement and the creative resistance of artists. Numerous demonstration participants were abducted or arrested.
ISHR Newsletter • July 2021
As the global recession in democracy and rise in authoritarianism deepens, the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) upholds their comprehensive efforts in advocating for and supporting those fighting for their civil and political rights worldwide. The year 2021 marks the 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom, the Freedom in the World Report 2021 states.
Open letter: Nestlé must immediately stop funding state media in Belarus
No other foreign company places as many commercials on Belarusian state television as Nestlé. Over 50 non-governmental organisations are therefore calling on the Swiss food company to immediately end its support for the Lukashenko regime's TV propaganda.
President Lukukashenko is tightening his authoritarian grip over Belarus
The forced landing of a Ryanair flight on Sunday 23 May 2021 has put Belarusian president Alexander G. Lukashenko in a new global spotlight. This incident marks a new quality of Belarusian authoritarian repression that has already intensified substantially since August 2020, when Belarusians were met with violent police crackdown while protesting his controversial re-election results.
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Cottbus Declaration on GDR Forced Labor of September 13, 2020: “Serious injustice has been done to these people”
The Union of Victims’ Associations of Communist Tyranny, the Human Rights Center Cottbus, the International Society for Human Rights and the Memorial Foundation Victims of Communism organized a tribunal on “Forced Labor in Political Prison in the GDR”.
Global Evangelical and Muslim organizations launch major joint religious freedom project
Leaders from the world’s largest independent Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization are beginning a joint effort to respond globally to threats to religious freedom coming from religious extremism and secular extremism.
Schirrmacher visits Memorial Hall in Nanjing
The President of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR), Thomas Schirrmacher, visited the Memorial Hall for the victims of the Massacre of the Japanese invaders 1937/1938 in Nanjing (China).
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