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Freedom House condemns the decision by Bahrain’s highest court today to uphold the sentences of 13 pro-democracy leaders. The activists are a symbol of the widespread demand of the Bahraini people for political reform, and their continued imprisonment is a reflection of the government’s unwillingness to meet this demand.

Freedom House welcomes a Ugandan court’s decision Wednesday to drop charges against British theater producer David Cecil, who staged a play about homosexuality, but reiterates its call for an end to the ongoing persecution of Ugandan LGBTI people.

Two children and their mothers Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi, who were imprisoned in July for following the Baha’i religion, recently fell ill in Iran's Semnan Prison and were transferred to a hospital. A third Baha'i mother, Mona Majidi, was sentenced in December and is also confined with her infant child in Semnan Prison. Freedom House calls on the government to immediately end its inhumane imprisonment of these women and children and its persecution of religious minorities.

 

Freedom House condemns the recent escalation in the persecution of free speech advocates in Vietnam, and calls for the release of several bloggers who have been unjustly imprisoned for shining a light on corruption and human rights abuses.

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