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WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS THREATENED
· Zimbabwe, 9
December 2011: Pre-trial
detention of human rights defenders Ms Molly Chimhanda and Messrs Gilbert
Mabusa and Fadzai December
· Mexico, 5
December 2011: Shooting
of human rights defender Ms Norma Andrade
· Algeria, 28
November 2011: Arrest
and threats against human rights defender Ms Nassima Guettal, before her
subsequent release
· Colombia, 17
November 2011: House
break-in, assault and threats against human rights defenders Ms Jackeline Rojas
Castañeda, Mr Juan Carlos Galvis and family
· Turkey, November
8, 2011: Sentencing
to prison / Judicial harassment of Ms. Buse Kiliçkaya, Ms. Selay Tunç and Ms.
Naz Gudumen
· Mexico, 8
November 2011: Women's
rights organization raided in Mexico
· Guatemala, 2
November 2011: Threats,
intimidation and false accusations against human rights defender Ms Lucia
Carolina Escobar Mejía
· Bangladesh, 3
November 2011: Harassment
and intimidation of human rights defender Ms Shampa Goswami
· Turkey: 2 November
2011, Sentencing of human rights defenders Buse Kilickaya, Selay Tunc and Naz
Gudumen
· Mexico: 18th Oct
2011, Demand
Protection For Margarita González Carpio Mesoamerican And International
Feminist And Human Rights Organizations Demand Protection For Margarita
González Carpio, Mexico
· India, 12 October
2011: Police
raid the home of human rights defender Ms Kavita Srivastava
· Zimbabwe, 7
October 2011: Judicial
harassment against Ms. Jenni Williams and Ms. Magodonga Mahlangu
· China, 7 October
2011: Continued
house arrest and isolation of Liu Xia, one year after her husband Liu Xiaobo
received the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
· Iran, 6 October
2011: Unfair
trial and sentencing of human rights defender Ms Narges Muhammadi to 11 years
in prison
· Uzbekistan, 4
October 2011: Arrest
and detention of human rights defenders Ms Gulshan Karaeva and Mr Nodir Akhatov
while monitoring the use of child labour in cotton fields
· Tanzania, 30
September 2011: Human
rights defender Mr Masesa Bandoma arbitrarily arrested and on trial as a result
of fabricated charges
· Kazakhstan, 13
September 2011: Arbitrary
arrest and administrative conviction of human rights defender and labour rights
leader, Ms Natalya Azhigalieva.
· Sierra Leone, 31
August 2011: Break-in
at the office of the Women's Centre for Good Governance and Human Rights
(WOCEGAR)
· India, 29 August
2011: India,
29 August 2011: Human rights defender and environmentalist Shehla Masood shot
dead
· Russian
Federation, 8 August 2011: Judicial
harassment of women human rights defender
· Iran, 14 July
2011: Women
human rights defender held despite order for release
· Iran, 6 July
2011: Human
rights defender Ms Mahnaz Mohammadi arrested and held in incommunicado
detention