Human Rights Protection Fund

Human rights news you may have missed recently:

Apple Daily Founder & Democracy Advocate, Jimmy Lai, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the Hong Kong High Court on 2 Counts of ‘Conspiracy to commit collusion with foreign forces.’ A significant setback for freedom of expression and press freedom.

Source: Human Rights Watch


Recent Amnesty International testimonies found people in North Korea, including schoolchildren, are being publicly executed, sent to labour camps or subjected to brutal public humiliation for watching South Korean television shows or listening to K-pop.

Source: Amnesty International

There has been a win for media freedom in the European Court in the case of Ismayilova vs. Azerbaijan, concerning prosecution of a leading Azerbaijani investigative journalist. Numerous human rights violations were found, including Article 10 (freedom of expression).

Source: Article 19


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