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From the US to Uganda, how climate activism has been criminalised in 2024

In this week’s Down To Earth newsletter: The global crackdown against climate activists and groups is clearly part of the fossil fuel industry’s strategy to crush dissent and keep burning the planet• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up here to get the newsletter in full

The Guardian - UK

UN human rights expert raises concerns about US charges against climate protesters

Mary Lawlor criticizes US’s failure to respond to concerns after Alex Connon and John Mark Rozendaal charges

The Guardian - US

Revealed: how the fossil fuel industry helps spread anti-protest laws across the US

Lobbyists and lawmakers have coordinated to enact new laws that increase criminal penalties for peaceful protests

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Why a majority of Britons want the U.K. to halt arms exports to Israel

Countries including Canada, the Netherlands and Spain say they're suspending arms sales to Israel. After an Israeli strike killed British World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza, will the U.K. too?

WEKU

Youth activists need protection against smear campaigns and arrests, says UN expert

Children and teenagers routinely denied access to support given to older activists against online and physical attacks, says report

The Guardian - US

‘Joyful but afraid’: Disabled Indian academic Saibaba’s family on acquittal

Wheelchair-bound ex-Delhi University professor is acquitted after 10 years of imprisonment over alleged Maoist links.

Al Jazeera

How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world

Guardian investigation finds growing number of countries passing anti-protest laws as part of playbook of tactics to intimidate people peacefully raising the alarm

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Bahrain activist Maryam al-Khawaja denied boarding on UK to Manama flight

Activist says she wants to meet her jailed father Abdulhadi al-Khawaja who is currently on hunger strike.

Al Jazeera

India must end ‘inhumane’ detention of activist GN Saibaba, says UN expert

Alarm over nearly decade-long detention of former English professor who is 90 percent disabled and bound to wheelchair.

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera slams naming of its journalists on Egypt ‘terror’ list

Al Jazeera Media Network denounces the Egyptian move to reinstate a number of its journalists on ‘terror’ list.

Al Jazeera

India arrests Kashmir journalist Irfan Mehraj on ‘terror’ charges

Irfan Mehraj, who worked with a prominent human rights organisation, was accused of funding ‘terror’ activities.

Al Jazeera

UN envoy calls for release of jailed journalist on hunger strike in Senegal

Concerns raised over health of Pape Alé Niang, detained since 20 December on charges of revealing confidential government information

The Guardian - UK

'Is he OK?': Wife of jailed Saudi activist fears for his life

Washington (AFP) - The wife of a jailed Saudi activist says she is desperate to know her husband's fate after losing touch with him for the first time during his nearly decade-long imprisonment.

AFP

‘Very concerned by ongoing detention of Siddique Kappan’: UN special rapporteur

Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, has said she is "very concerned" by the ongoing detention of journalist Siddique Kappan.

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Protests after 'chilling' arrest of India rights activist

New Delhi (AFP) - Protests were held in several Indian cities Monday over the arrest of a rights activist who attempted to have Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared complicit in deadly sectarian riots 20 years ago.

The Hindu

U.N. official seeks Teesta Setalvad’s release

“Teesta is a strong voice against hatred and discrimination. Defending human rights is not a crime,” says U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor

Al Jazeera

Teesta Setalvad who fought for 2002 Gujarat riot victims arrested

Rights group say arrest of Setalvad, who campaigned for the 2002 Gujarat riot victims, will have a ‘chilling effect’.

Reuters

Migrant rights defenders in Greece treated like criminals, says UN expert

Human rights defenders in Greece, particularly those documenting the treatment of migrants and refugees, face smear campaigns and are treated like criminals, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders Mary Lawlor said on Wednesday.

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