We, the undersigned civil society organisations (CSOs), are deeply alarmed by reports that the European Network Against ...
Her early commitment to the dignity of people deprived of their liberty has run through five decades of judicial and ...
H.E. Hun Manet Prime Minister Royal Government of Cambodia Phnom Penh, Cambodia October 12, 2026 Re: Follow-up to the Urgent ...
Over 3,000 people are on death row in Bangladesh, and more than 560 of them have waited over 16 years for their fate to be ...
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), within ...
IND 002 / 1026 / OBS 049   Arbitrary detention /  Judicial harassment /  Deterioration of health condition while in detention  India   8 ...
The second edition of the Global Torture Index highlights a marked disconnect between international legal standards and domestic legal frameworks on the one hand, and their persistent disregard in ...
Geneva, 25 June 2025: On the eve of the United Nations Day for Victims of Torture, the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) launches the Global Torture Index—the first-of-its-kind tool designed ...
Since the Taliban retook power in 2021, Afghanistan has become, in the words of one of the artists below, "the only country on the entire planet where music is prohibited." Restrictions touch not only ...
Paris-Geneva, 8 April 2026 – The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) strongly condemn the arbitrary arrest of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer ...
The International Secretariat of OMCT has been informed by the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan, a member of the OMCT network, of the release of three persons who were being arbitrarily detained in ...