Mustafa SHETA
Researcher, journalist and theatre manager Mustafa Sheta continued to be arbitrarily detained without trial at Gilbo'a prison in Israel at…
Galal EL-BEHAIRY
Arrested in March 2018, he continued to be held without trial at the end of the year despite fully serving an unjust three-year sentence followed by two years in…
Ashraf OMAR
Cartoonist and translator Ashraf Omar, arrested in July 2024, remained held in pre-trial detention on bogus national security charges at the end of the year. Security forces stormed…
Alaa ABD EL-FATTAH
Alaa Abd El-Fattah, an award-winning writer and Honorary Member of English PEN, remained arbitrarily imprisoned at the end of the year, despite fully serving an unjust…
Boualem SANSAL
Boualem Sansal, 75, is a dual national, award-winning French-Algerian writer held on national security charges. On 16 November 2024, Algerian authorities arrested Sansal…
Fernando ALMENARES RIVERA (known as Nando OBCD)
Rapper Fernando Almenares Rivera (known as Nando OBCD) was detained on 31 December 2024 by two plain clothes police officials, reportedly without summons or judicial hearing, on ’suspicion’ that he had committed…
Collective case of writers and journalists detained without trial for 23 years.
September 2024 marked 23 years of the incommunicado detention without trial of a group of Eritrean journalists and writers, including Dawit ISAAK; Amanuel ASRAT; Said Idris ‘ABU ARE’;…
Amanda ECHANIS
A poet, writer and activist, Amanda Echanis has been held in pre-trial detention since she was arrested at her home alongside her then one-month-old…