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Rights Defenders (RDI)
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📢 Rights Defenders Initiative (RDI), dedicated to promoting human rights worldwide. Light on human rights violations and create public awareness. 📢

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🚨 Indonesia: Mass arrests during August-September 2025 protests! Peaceful demonstrators face brutal repression for defending democracy.

Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right! ✊

#IndonesiaProtests #FreedomOfAssembly #StandWithIndonesia #HumanRightsIndonesia #DemocracyUnderThreat
November 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
🚨 Bugra Baldan has been unjustly imprisoned in Turkiye for over 8 years without fair trial!

Detained under politically motivated charges, his rights are being violated.

Justice delayed is justice denied! ⚖️
#FreeBugraBaldan #JusticeForBugra #TurkeyHumanRights #FairTrial #EndArbitraryDetention
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🚨 The arbitrary detention of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is unacceptable! Attacks on Kamal Adwan Hospital are war crimes.

Healthcare workers must be protected - hospitals are safe zones! 🏥

#FreeDrHussam #ProtectHealthcare #GazaUnderAttack #HealthcareNotTarget #HumanRights
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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A child in Gaza asks for bread, not toys.
A mother searches for water, not comfort.
A doctor operates without anesthesia, not by choice.

This is not politics. This is humanity dying!
#GazaCrisis #HumanRights #ActNow
October 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
🚨 A young lieutenant's last words: "I'm going to protect the Presidential Palace"

What happened next?
TOLD: Terrorist threat incoming
TRUTH: Set up to die
RESULT: Murdered & dishonored

JUSTICE FOR LIEUTENANT KARADAG!
#JusticeForKaradag #StateBetyal #RestoreHisHonor
October 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
🚨 Trump's Human Rights Record 🇺🇸

Less than a year into his second term, the abuses are stacking up.

Human Rights Watch documented 100 harms in 100 days—and counting. 😔

We urge everyone to stand against these unlawful policies. ✊

#HumanRights #Trump #StopTheAbuse #Palestine #GlobalJustice
October 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
🚨 URGENT: Activist shot while livestreaming in Angola
Serrote José de Oliveira was shot in the leg during a peaceful protest on July 28.

His family had no access for days. His health is deteriorating.

No one should be shot for peaceful protest. 📢✊
#Angola #HumanRights #FreedomOfExpression
October 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
💔72-year-old İbrahim Güngör died in prison in Turkiye
He suffered from Alzheimer's🧠and diabetes. Despite repeated pleas from his family🙏, authorities refused to release him.
We demand accountability for deaths of vulnerable prisoners in Turkish jails.
#Turkey #HumanRights #Prison #İbrahimGüngör
October 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
24 years. No charges. No trial. 📰🔒
Dawit Isaak, the world's longest imprisoned journalist, has been silenced in #Eritrea🇪🇷 since 2001. But we hold onto hope. ✊

Maybe he'll write again. ✍️
#FreeDawitIsaak #PressFreedom
October 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
🚨 ECHR ruled Turkey's conviction of Yuksel Yalçınkaya based on ByLock (mobile application) use constitutes "systemic violations" of fair trial rights.

8,500+ similar cases pending. Up to 100,000 individuals identified.

#ECHR #HumanRights #Turkiye
October 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🚨 Forced disappearance from Gaza: Journalists Haitham Abdelwahed (25) and Nidal al-Waheidi (31) were detained by Israeli forces on October 7, 2023, while reporting at Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing. They remain missing since.
The international community is calling for urgent action.
#EnforcedDisappear
October 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Rwanda's opposition leader
Victoire Umuhoza re-arrested

She already served 8 years in prison (2010-2018) for peaceful political opposition. The #African Court ruled Rwanda violated her rights.

This is what silencing dissent looks like.

#FreeVictoireIngabire #HumanRights

@amnesty.org
@hrw.org
September 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🚨Morocco:
- 600-800 illegal abortions daily Abortion Restrictions and Human Rights Violations (ARHRV) in Morocco. Women face prison for seeking care, even rape survivors.

- A 14-year-old died in 2022 after unsafe abortion following rape ARHRV in Morocco.

Time to protect women's lives!

#Morocco
September 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 1 in 3 women face violence globally

🔥 UN reports "femi-genocide" in Gaza, mass rape in Sudan & DRC

Governments MUST act NOW!

#GenderBasedViolence #Gaza #Sudan #DRC #ActNow
September 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Belarus is arresting people for LIKING social media posts!

📱 Simply joining a Telegram channel can now land you in prison - even if it was legal when you joined

This is digital authoritarianism at its worst 💔

#DigitalRights #Belarus #FreedomOfExpression #HumanRights #OnlineFreedom
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
🚨 URGENT: The arrest of Council of Europe Youth Delegate Enes Hocaoğulları is unacceptable!

📷 Punishing someone for exercising peaceful freedom of expression in an international forum is a human rights violation

#EnesHocaoğulları #FreedomOfExpression
September 1, 2025 at 7:24 PM
⚖️The detention of lawyer Mehmet Pehlivan, the opposition's presidential candidate in Türkiye, is a serious violation of the rule of law and undermines the fundamental right to a fair trial.

The independence of the legal profession is a cornerstone of a #democratic society and must be upheld.
August 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
📣 Kurdish journalist and poet Nedim Türfent faces a new arrest warrant (issued on May 7, 2025) — a serious threat to press freedom in Turkey.

🌍 International organizations are raising their voices.
#FreeTurfent #JournalismIsNotACrime ✊🖊️
July 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
📢 Arbitrary detention is a grave violation of human rights in Northeast Syria. We must end this injustice now.

#EndArbitraryDetention #HumanRights #NortheastSyria #JusticeForAll
July 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
⚖️ Mohamed Benhalima, a whistle-blower and former soldier, was deported from Spain to Algeria on March 2022 despite clear risks of torture and unfair trial.

🚨He now faces a life sentence, based on confessions allegedly extracted under torture.

#MohamedBenhalima #HumanRights #StopTorture #JusticeNow
July 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
🕊️Sumeyra Gelir was only 15. She died by suicide in her home in Bolu, Turkey — a tragic outcome of systemic pressure, neglect, and silencing.

Her story is a heartbreaking reminder of the injustice and unbearable pressure young people continue to face.

#SumeyraGelir #HumanRights #ChildRights #Turkey
July 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Democracy is in peril in Chad! 🚨

Opposition voices are being silenced and human rights are being violated. Let's support the Chadian people's right to a peaceful and democratic future.

#Chad #Democracy #HumanRights #StandWithChad
July 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Don't remain silent about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza! 💔

The violation of human rights must end, and urgent humanitarian aid must be delivered to the region. 🕊️

#GazaUnderSiege #FreePalestine #HumanRights #ActForGaza
July 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🚨 El gobierno chino está restringiendo sistemáticamente la libertad de movimiento de los uigures, violando derechos humanos fundamentales.

¡Se necesita acción internacional urgente para protegerlos!

#DerechosUigur #DerechosHumanos #China #RestriccionesDeViaje #ApoyaALosUigures
July 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🚨 中国政府正在系统性地限制维吾尔族人的行动自由,这侵犯了基本人权。他们面临着严格的审查、任意的拒绝以及因与外国联系而带来的严重后果,许多人甚至无法获得护照。国际社会亟需采取紧急行动来保护他们!

#维吾尔人权 #人权 #中国 #旅行限制 #与维吾尔人站在一起
July 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM