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Region Name Country Information Mailing Address Gender Africa Yahaya Sharif Aminu Nigeria 22-year old singer at risk of execution after being sentenced Yahaya Sharif-Aminu Male to death by hanging for circulating a song via WhatsApp Nigerian Correctional Service considered blasphemous. Kano State Command c/of Nigeria Correctional Service National Headquarters Bill Clinton Drive, Airport Road. P.M.B 16 Garki Abuja. Nigeria MENA Ruba Asi Palestine Ruba Asi a Palestinian student who has been in military Ruba Asi Female detention since 9 July 2020, she is currently charged with Damon Prison participation and affiliation with a democratic student P.O. Box 98 political group at Birzeit University. Daliyat al-Karmel Israel Europe & EECA Julian Assange Austrialia Julian Assange is an Australian journalist who founded Julian Assange Male WikiLeaks in 2006. He is being sought by the current US DOB 3 July 1971 administration for publishing US government documents #A9379AY which exposed war crimes and human rights abuses. The HMP Belmarsh politically motivated charges represent an unprecedented Western Way attack on press freedom and the public’s right to know – London SE28 0EB seeking to criminalise basic journalistic activity. United Kingdom If convicted Julian Assange faces a sentence of 175 years, likely to be spent in extreme isolation. MENA Marwan Barghouti Palestine Marwan Barghouti is the Secretary-General of Fatah in the Marwan Barghouti Male West Bank. He was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to five Hadarim Prison life sentences and 40 years. P.O. Box 165 Even Yehuda 405000 Israel Asia "Slow beat" Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Chan Chi-chuen Male Chan Chi-chuen ℅ People Power Room 619, Kinetic Industrial Centre No. 7 Wang Kwong Road Kowloon Bay Hong Kong Asia Sam Chueng Ho-sum Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Sam CHEUNG Ho-sum Male ℅ Gary Poon District Councillor Office Shop 11B, G/F Block C , Greenland Garden Shek Pai Tau Road Tuen Mun Hong Kong Europe & EECA Dennis Christensen Russia Jehova's Witness sentenced to six years in a penal colony for Christensen Dennis Ole Male “organizing the activities of an extremist organization.” FKU IK N 3 ul.Primakova, 23A, g.L’gov Kurskaya oblast 307754 Russia Asia Andrew Chiu Ka-yin Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Andrew Chiu Ka-yin Male ℅ The Democratic Party 4/F Hanley House No. 776-778 Nathan Road Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong Asia Owen Chow Ka-shing Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Owen Chow Ka-shing Male PO Box 1342 Tseun Wan Post Office 38 Sai Lau Kok Road Tsuen Wan Hong Kong Asia Eddie Chu Hoi-dick Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Eddie CHU Hoi-dick Male 101 G/F Hong Shui House Shui Pin Wai Estate Yuen Long Hong Kong Asia Chui Tsz-kin Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Chui Tsz-kin Male Shop 29, Yue Shun House Yue Wan Estate Chai Wan Hong Kong 1 Region Name Country Information Mailing Address Gender Africa Ibrahim Ezz El-Din Egypt Ibrahim is a researcher at the Egyptian Commission for Ibrahim Ezz El-Din Male Rights and Freedoms (ECRF), where he focuses on the right Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms to housing. Plain 4A, Al-Saraya al kobra, Garden City clothes police arrested Ibrahim on the night of 11 June 2019 Cairo from the street near his home in Cairo. The authorities Egypt subjected him to enforced disappearance through concealing his fate and whereabouts for 167 days. On 2 January 2021, Ibrahim Ezz el-Din appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution for investigations in a new case (No. 1018/2020) over baseless charges of "belonging to a terrorist group". Asia Ding Jiaxi China Detained since 26 December 2019. Currently charged under Ding Jiaxi Male "subversion of state power”. Linshu Country Detention Centre Wujieqianchun, Linshu Xian, Linyi Shi Shandong Sheng 276712 People's Republic of China Africa Itai Dzamara Zimbabwe Itai Peace Dzamara, a journalist and pro-democracy activist, Sheffra Dzamra Male was taken on the morning of 9 March 2015 by five unknown C/o Campaigner Southern Africa men while at a barber shop in Harare’s Glen View suburb. Amnesty International The men accused him of stealing cattle before handcuffing 97 Oxford Road him and driving off with him in a white truck with Saxonwold concealed number plates. His whereabouts remain unknown. Johannesburg 2196 Attempts by members of his family and human rights South Africa lawyers to establish his whereabouts have been unfruitful. Asia Gary Fan Kwok-wai Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Gary FAN Kwok-wai Male Room B190 1/F Well On Shopping Arcade 9 Yuk Nga Lane Tseung Kwan O Hong Kong Asia Frankie Fung Tat-chun Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Frankie FUNG Tat-chun Male ℅ Li Chi Wang Office Room 204 Podium Shun Wo House Wo Che Estate 2 Fung Shun Street Shatin Hong Kong Asia Gwyneth Ho Kwai-lam Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Gwyneth HO Kwai-lam Female PO Box 73962 Kowloon Central Post Office 405 Nathan Road Yau Ma Tei Hong Kong Asia Huang Qi China Huang Qi is the founder and director of the Sichuan-based Huang Qi Male human rights website “64 Tianwang”, detained fore more No. 9 Xiangjiazui than 4 years, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in January Bazhou Qu, Bazhong Shi 2019 Sichuan Sheng 636000 People's Republic of China Europe & EECA Mikhail Iosilevich Russia Russian civil society and political activist and the local Iosilevich Mikhail Aleksandrovich Male leader of Pastafarians (or followers of the Church of the FKU SIZO-1 Flying Spaghetti Monster). GUSIN of Russia for Nizhnii Novgorod Region Prospect Gagarina, d. 26 a Nizhnii Novgorod 603098 Russia MENA Zeynab Jalalian Iran Female. Life sentence for association with Kurdish Yazd prison Female opposition group Women’s ward End of Imam Street After Imam Reza Square Opposite Imam Janab Terminal Yazd Yazd Province Islamic Republic of Iran MENA Khalida Jarrar Palestine Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian civil society leader who lives Khalida Jarrar Female and works in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. She Damon Prison was Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights P.O. Box 98 Association's Director from 1994 to 2006. In 2006, she was Daliyat al-Karmel elected as a Palestinian Legislative Council member and had Israel been the head of the Prisoners Commission of the PLC since then. Mrs. Jarrar was also appointed to the Palestinian National Committee for the follow-up of the International Criminal Court. Europe & EECA Maryia Kalesnikava Belarus Co-leader alongside presidential opposition candidate Kalesnikava Mariya Alyaksandravna Female Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya. Currently in detention facing SIZO-1 criminal charges after avoiding forcible exile from Belarus ul. Volodarskogo, 2 in September 2020. Minsk 220030 Belarus 2 Region Name Country Information Mailing Address Gender MENA Ribhi Hasan Ribhi Karajah Palestine Karajah’s list of charges includes his affiliation with an Ribhi Hasan Ribhi Karajah Male unlawful association according to military orders, his Ofer Prison student activism with the Progressive Student Front at P.O. Box 3007 Birzeit University, and a charge for “failing to prevent a Givat Ze’ev crime” by not informing the occupation authorities about the Israel intention of one of his friends to execute a military operation. Africa Rabeh Kareche Algeria Algerian journalist Rabah Kareche published an article Rabeh Kareche Male covering a protest staged by the Tuareg population of the Amnesty Algeria Tamanrasset area, in southern Algeria, contesting the recent 70, rue Didouche Mourad, 2e étage, Alger transfer of parts of their province into a newly established 16004 province. On 18 April, the Algerian authorities arrested him Algeria shortly after he published the article in Liberté newspaper. He is detained in a prison in Tamanrasset awaiting trial and could face up to 23 years in prison if convicted. He must be immediately and unconditionally released. MENA Ata Khattab Palestine Ata Khattab is a Palestinian dancer and choreographer, head Ata Khattab Male of choreography and training at El-Funoun Palestinian Ofer Prison Popular Dance Troupe. P.O. Box 3007 Givat Ze’ev On 21 March 2021, a list of charges was submitted against Israel Khattab referencing his political expressions and cultural activities alleging that the dancer is affiliated with an organization deemed unlawful under Israeli military orders. Europe & EECA Emir-Usein Kuku Russia Peacefully opposing the Russian occupation of Crimea and Kuku Emiru-Useinu Kemalovichu Male has been actively involved in the monitoring and 1976 g.r. documentation of human rights violations in Crimea. IK-16 Salavat Republic of Bashkortostan 453256 Russia Asia Lam Cheuk-ting Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. LAM Cheuk-ting Male ℅ The Democratic Party 4/F Hanley House No. 776-778 Nathan Road Tsim Sha Tsui Hong Kong Asia Nathan Lau Chak-fung Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. Nathan LAU Chak-fung Male ℅ Tsang Yan Ying District Councillor Office Shop 112 1/F, Fullview Garden Commercial Centre 18 Siu Sai Wan Road Hong Kong Asia Ventus Lau Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion Ventus LAU Female and rioting. No. 8, Ground Floor, Hin Yau House, Hin Keng Estate 69 Che Kung Miu road Tai Wai Hong Kong Asia "Longhair" Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion. LEUNG Kwok-hung Male Leung Kwok-hung Room B2 4/F Tai Cheung Factory Building 3 Wing Ming Street Cheung Sha Wan Hong Kong Asia Kinda Li Ka-tat Hong Kong Currently charged under conspiracy to commit subversion.
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