Defenders Database

Assem Mohammed

• Yemen
• Al-Hudaydah

• Male

• Journalist

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Targeted

Ataullah Mousa Mohammed Al-Huwaiti

• Saudi Arabia

• Male

• Human rights defender

• Accused of sedition
• Accused of terrorism
• Forced to give false confession
• Sentenced to death
• Trumped up charges

Atena Daemi

• Iran
• Tehran

• Female

• Woman human rights defender
• Women's rights advocate

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Beaten
• Family threats
• Hunger strike
• Ill-treated
• Judicial harassment
• Sentenced
• Tortured
• Trumped up charges
• Unfair and poor prison conditions

Atena Farghadani

• Iran
• Tehran

• Female

• Woman human rights defender
• Cartoonist

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Ill-treated
• Unfair and poor prison conditions
• Judicial harassment
• Hunger strike
• Solitary confinement

Awad Al-Sawafi

• Oman

• Male

• Human rights defender

• Arrested
• Detained
• Judicial harassment
• Sentenced
• Solitary confinement
• Tortured
• Unfair and poor prison conditions

Awad Kashmim

• Yemen
• Mukalla

• Male

• Editor-in-chief

• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Incommunicado detention

Awad Saleh Kashmeem

• Yemen

• Male

• Human rights defender

• Arbitrary arrest and detention

Awaz Ali Al-Sawafi

• Oman
• Muscat

• Male

Ayat Alqurmozi

• Bahrain

• Female

• Poet

• Ill-treated
• Arbitrary arrest and detention
• Tortured