Defenders Database

Turki Al-Jasser

• Saudi Arabia
• Riyadh

• Male

• Blogger
• Journalist

• Enforced disappearance
• No family visits and/or calls
• Tortured
• Undisclosed location
• Unfair and poor prison conditions
• Unwarranted imprisonment, trial and death

Umm Nasser

• Qatar

• Female

• Online activist

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Sentenced
• Unfair trial

Urs Al-Hamad

• Iraq

• Male

• Researcher

• Defamation
• Harassed
• Targeted
• Verbally intimidated

Varisheh Moradi

• Iran
• Sanandaj

• Female

• Woman human rights defender

• Denial access to a lawyer
• Enforced disappearance
• Hunger strike
• Ill-treated
• Sentenced to death
• Solitary confinement
• Tortured
• Trumped up charges
• Unfair trial

Wael Ahmed Hassan

• Saudi Arabia
• Riyadh

• Male

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Denial access to a lawyer
• No family visits and/or calls
• Sentenced
• Trumped up charges
• Unfair trial

Wael Al-Absi

• Yemen
• Taiz

• Male

• Media Worker
• Photographer

• Injured
• Killed

Wael Hamada

• Syria
• Duma

• Male

• Human rights defender

• Enforced disappearance
• Kidnapped

Wael Nouar

• Tunisia
• Tunis

• Male

• Human rights defender
• Political activist

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Trumped up charges

Wafaa Al-Matari

• Yemen
• Taiz

• Female

• Journalist

• Arrested