{"id":12966,"date":"2015-04-01T04:17:37","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/anniehakim\/?p=130"},"modified":"2015-04-01T04:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T04:17:37","slug":"5-international-human-rights-activists-that-deserve-to-be-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/5-international-human-rights-activists-that-deserve-to-be-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"5 International Human Rights Activists that Deserve to be Heard"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.) Gambian woman forced into exile for posting video of police brutality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minah Manneh, a Gambian women\u2019s rights activist, filmed disturbing footage of a policeman caning a schoolgirl and then posted it on her Facebook page. This courageous act has forced the 23-year-old to flee her own country as Gambian law expressly forbids its citizens from uploading videos that could “tarnish the state’s image”.<\/p>\n

(France Observer 3\/30\/15)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

2.) Oman: 3-Year Sentence for Rights Activist<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Oman court on March 8, 2015, sentenced a human rights activist to three years in prison for his writings. Said Jaddad, 48, a prominent pro-reform blogger, is being held at the detention facility in the southern city of Salalah.<\/p>\n

(Human Rights Watch 3\/24\/2015)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

3.) Secular Blogger Murdered in Bangladesh<\/strong><\/p>\n

Secular blogger, Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death in Bangladesh after accusing fundamentalists of \u00a0‘choking free thought’.<\/p>\n

(CNN 3-31-15)\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

4.) Myanmar Students Protest Free Speech Crackdown
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\nStudents and activists staged protests at 11 major cities throughout Myanmar on Friday (March 27th), calling on authorities to free their jailed colleagues who have been detained for more than two weeks following a brutal police crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Letpadan.<\/p>\n

(Radio Free Asia 3-27-15)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

5.) Afghan men wear burqas to campaign for women’s rights<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahead of International Women’s Day, a group of men in Afghanistan marched through the streets in veils to protest against female oppression.<\/p>\n

(The Telegraph 3-6-2015)<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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1.) Gambian woman forced into exile for posting video of police brutality Minah Manneh, a Gambian women\u2019s rights activist, filmed disturbing footage of a policeman caning a schoolgirl and then posted it on her Facebook page. This courageous act has forced the 23-year-old to flee her own country as Gambian law expressly forbids its citizens […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}