Coercion in Daylight: The World Must Outlaw Arbitrary Detention

Coercion in Daylight: The world must outlaw arbitrary detention

By Sir Ronald Sanders The practice has an ugly name and an uglier intent: arbitrary detention in State-to-State relations means this: tyrannical regimes seize innocents to make other governments submit to their wishes. As I said on October 28, 2025, at the United Nations, this is “not diplomacy; it is coercion in daylight.” The principle at stake concerns every nation, large or small. For large powers, such acts of arbitrary arrest and detention…

Uganda : Arbitrary detention of 12 Stop EACOP youth activists

UGA 006 / 1025 / OBS 065 Judicial harassment / Arbitrary detention Uganda 29 October 2025 The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), requests your urgent intervention in the following situation in Uganda. Description of the situation: The Observatory has been informed of the judicial harassment and arbitra…