Impact: Women’s Rights Activist Freed in Uganda
Azerbaijani opposition figure at risk of politicized trial
Impact: ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Figure Freed From Jail
U.N. Body To Consider Russia’s Mass Killing Of Civilians In Ukraine (Forbes)
CFJ Invites Applications for 2nd Year of Fellowship for Women Lawyers in Africa
Report: How Egypt Impedes Lawyers’ Work to Defend Those in Pretrial Detention
Pretrial Detention in Egypt: Through the Eyes of Defense Lawyers
This report by The Clooney Foundation for Justice (CFJ) and the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) highlights the enormous hurdles that defense lawyers in Egypt face in representing individuals in pretrial detention.
Fellowships
NGOs file landmark complaint to UN Human Rights Committee on Russian aggression in Ukraine
La Justicia argentina escucha a víctimas en la causa por crímenes de lesa humanidad de las fuerzas de seguridad venezolanas (El País)
In an Argentine court, Venezuelans testify to alleged crimes against humanity under President Maduro (AP)
CEHRI and CFJ file case in Austria against Russian servicemen for sexual crimes committed in Ukraine
Venezuelan Victims of Grave Human Rights Abuses Testify in a Landmark Hearing in Argentina
CFJ’s Waging Justice for Women Fellowship
TrialWatch and Covington Challenge Kazakh Opposition Figure’s Conviction in Petition to UN
(Русский язык ниже) Kazakhstan should overturn the spurious ‘extremism’ conviction against opposition figure Marat Zhylanbayev and release him from jail, the Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch Initiative and law firm Covington & Burling LLP said today. After a closed trial, Zhylanbaev was given a seven-year prison sentence for nothing more than peaceful opposition activity. With…