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The undersigned organizations call for the immediate release of lawyer at the Court of Cassation and former member of Egypt’s ...

The undersigned organizations express their deep concern over the escalating pattern of “punishment by proxy” employed by the ...

Brussels-Oslo-Stockholm, 24 May 2022 – As authorities in Tajikistan continue their violent crackdown on protestors in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO), human rights organisations urge ...

The Global Torture Index is a unique, data-driven tool designed to annually assess the risk of torture and other ill-treatment worldwide. It evaluates national laws, policies, and practices in line ...

The Observatory has been informed about the arbitrary detention of Ms Keta Tsitskishvili and Mr Vakho Sanaia, two journalists ...

The World Organisation Against Torture works with 200 member organisations to end torture and ill-treatment, assist victims, and protect human rights… ...

Georgian civil society and human rights organisations are facing a crackdown, with their voices and spaces being shrunk by the authorities. The ...

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Armel Niyongere, exiled Burundian lawyer and Secretary General of SOS-Torture Burundi, a member of the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) SOS-Torture network, continues to denounce human rights ...

In Venezuela, torture is part of a systematic pattern of state repression against persons arbitrarily detained for political reasons or for their work in the defense of human rights. According to ...

Update on this article: the Global Torture Index mentioned here is now publicly available as of June 2025. You can explore the platform at this link. Over the past three decades, significant strides ...