Persian version (PDF) GENEVA (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities immediately release arbitrarily detained Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali who...

GENEVA (23 February 2021) – UN experts* said today the US Administration's review of how to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre should also address ongoing violations of human rights being...

GENEVA (10 February 2021) – A UN expert today said she feared three human rights defenders serving 10-year prison sentences in the United Arab Emirates are being mistreated in conditions that may...

中文 Korean 한국어 (Word) GENEVA (2 February 2021) – Seven years on from a landmark UN investigation into human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), there are reasonable grounds to...

Chinese | Spanish Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 5 May 2020 Subject: COVID-19: Americas / prison conditions Conditions in many...

Welcome Remarks by Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights, Ilze Brands Kheris 22 April 2020 Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the launch of Global Prison Trends 2020, jointly published...

Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Rupert Colville Location: Geneva Date: 3 April 2020 Subject: Syria One of the countries where the risk of mass infections in prisons is...

Arabic The following comment is attributable to Rupert Colville, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: “As former President Mohammed Morsi was in the custody of the...

​French GENEVA (18 June 2019) ‑ United Nations experts said today they are alarmed by the death in custody of a human rights defender after a 53-day hunger strike in Algeria. Members of the Working...

GENEVA (31 May 2019) ‑ A UN expert who visited Julian Assange in a London prison says he fears his human rights could be seriously violated if he is extradited to the United States and condemned the...