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While many of us will be in the company of loved ones this holiday season, Dzyanis will spend another year separated from his family—punished for daring to share the truth.

Among them is Dzyanis Ivashyn, a journalist, economist, and political scientist who was arrested in March 2021 and is serving a 13-year prison sentence for his investigative reporting. www.freedom-now.org/cases/dzyani...

Your support makes victories like this possible. But our work is far from over. More than 1,200 political prisoners remain wrongfully imprisoned in Belarus.

We are thrilled to report that after sustained international advocacy, including a ruling from the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on the petition we filed on his behalf, Igor was released in September as part of a mass amnesty.

Last year on #GivingTuesday, we highlighted the case of Belarusian journalist Igor Losik, who was serving a 15-year prison sentence.

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This persecution must end and she must be released immediately. We are confident the UN will agree.

Leaders must raise concerns about these individuals' treatment with their respective govts at #CMF46. All member states must reaffirm their commitments to OIF's mandate & to upholding intl law obligations not to use detention as a political tool

#Rwanda - Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is a prominent political opposition figure & activist who has long been persecuted in Rwanda. In June, she was re-arrested on baseless charges as part of the government’s broader effort to silence opposition voices www.freedom-now.org/cases/victoi...

Thomas is one of several detained journalists in #Cameroon, including Tsi Conrad, Amadou Vamoulké, Kingsley Fomunyuy Njoka & Mancho Bibixy. Attacks on free & independent press undermine democracy, as was very recently apparent in Cameroon’s October presidential election

#Cameroon - Thomas Awah Jr. is a journalist & activist who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for reporting on protests in the Anglophone region. We filed a petition with the UNWGAD, which found his detention violates international law. www.freedom-now.org/cases/thomas...

Abdoul began a hunger strike in August that left him hospitalized. Hopeful Togo’s govt might finally release him, he ended it in late Sept. But last week, he resumed the hunger strike, joined this time by ~25 others protesting their arbitrary detention. icilome.com/2025/11/togo...

#Togo - Abdoul Aziz Goma is an Irish national of Togolese origin serving a 10-year prison sentence on fabricated charges of criminal conspiracy & disturbing public order for providing humanitarian support to local protestors. www.freedom-now.org/cases/abdoul...

We are also reminded that #Azerbaijan, the host of #COP29, continues to imprison nearly 400 journalists, human rights defenders, labor activists, and other civil society members more than a year after the climate conference ended. www.demandrightsatcop.org/political-pr...