Discussions in the sidelines of the 60th UN Human Rights Council session highlighted the depth and scale of repression in the United Arab Emirates and the phenomenon of transnational repression in the Arab states. On 2 October, FairSquare’s James Lynch moderated Silencing dissent: mass trials in the United Arab Emirates, a panel discussion at the […]| FairSquare
Alaa Abd el-Fattah’s pardon is a major step forward and a huge relief, FairSquare said today after his lawyer reported that the President had issued a pardon for the British-Egyptian national. FairSquare has been working closely with Alaa’s family in the UK since 2022, in an intense campaign that this year saw his mother Laila […] The post Alaa Abd el-Fattah pardoned appeared first on FairSquare.| FairSquare
FairSquare has joined 19 Egyptian and international human rights organisations in condemning the Egyptian government’s unprecedented use of its diplomatic missions as tools of transnational repression. A leaked recording of Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty last month revealed shocking instructions to embassy staff to “grab [protestors], tie them up, drag them inside, and make their lives hell.” This […]| FairSquare
Between January and May 2025, Iranian authorities executed at least 76 Baloch prisoners, according to human rights reports. The wave| Zamaneh Media
Victims of transnational repression (TNR) in the UK may lose trust in the British system to take the threats to them seriously, a Select Committee inquiry has been told in relation to cases linked to the governments of Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. In written evidence published by the UK parliament’s Joint Committee […]| FairSquare
FairSquare has today joined with the Bahrain Institute for Rights and Development, Human Rights Watch, and Reprieve to call on the British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to use his government’s deepening links with Bahrain to advocate for the release of the country’s political prisoners. In a letter sent on 9 July, sent after a meeting […] The post British PM urged to use influence in support of Bahrain’s political prisoners appeared first on FairSquare.| FairSquare
Ninety U.S.-based civil society groups have warned FIFA that it risks becoming a “public relations tool to whitewash the reputation of an increasingly authoritarian government”, in a joint letter that calls on FIFA to publicly urge the US government to reverse immigration policies and practices introduced by the Trump administration. The letter describes how repressive […]| FairSquare
FIFA’s ongoing failure to enforce sanctions against the Israeli Football Association (IFA) despite long-standing and irrefutable evidence that the IFA is in violation of FIFA Statutes is further evidence of the organisation’s ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules. At its 75th annual Congress held in Paraguay on 15 May – twelve years after […]| FairSquare
