Abeer Qassim Hamza

Abeer Qassim Hamza

female, deceased (2006)
Victimofhumanrightsabuses, murder victim, Iraq war crimes, Torture in Iraq, death by firearm in Iraq, Murdered Iraqi child…rape victim
Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad who was gang-raped, killed...
Muzafar Avazov

Muzafar Avazov

male, deceased (2002)
torture victim, Victimofhumanrightsabuses, immersion in boiling water, uzbekistan, Uzbekistani, Human Rights Watch
Muzafar Avazov was an Uzbekistan torture victim. He died in 2002, apparently from religiously-motivated state torture. Human Rights Watch recorded...
Elza Kungaeva

Elza Kungaeva

female, deceased (2000)
Yury Budanov, Victimofhumanrightsabuses, murder victim, Colonel, war crime, district
Elza Kungaeva (also known as Kheda Kungaeva, alternativelly spelled Kungayeva) was an 18-year-old Chechen woman abducted and murdered by a Russian...

Malika Umazheva

female, deceased (2002)
death by firearm in Russia, Victimofhumanrightsabuses, murder victim, Second Chechen War, dissident, Russian…Victim of Russian political repressions
Malika Umazheva was the former head of the of the pro-Moscow administration of the Chechen village Alkhan-Kala, who was murdered by a Russian...
Ramzan Khadzhiev

Ramzan Khadzhiev

male, deceased (1996)
death by firearm in Russia, Victimofhumanrightsabuses, Russian, Military, journalist, chechnya…murder victim
Ramzan Khadzhiev was chief of the Northern Caucasus bureau of Russian Public Television (ORT). Photo
Nguyen van Ly

Nguyen van Ly

male, 63 years old
Roman Catholic, Tự Do Ngôn Luận, Vietnam Progression Party, Đảng Thăng Tiến Việt Nam, Vietnamese democracy activist, Political repression in Vietnam…Victimofhumanrightsabuses
Nguyen Van Ly began his dissident activities as early as the 1970s. He spent a year in prison from 1977 to 1978, and an additional nine from May...

Manadel Al-Jamadi

male, deceased (2003)
abu ghraib, playing possum, Associated Press, strappado, United States Army, thumbs up…torture victim, Victimofhumanrightsabuses
Manadel Jamadi was an Iraqi prisoner who was tortured to death in United States custody during interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison in November 2003....

Ruslan Alikhadzhyev

male, deceased (2000)
chechen, blindfold, chechnya, disappeared, murder victim, politician…Victimofhumanrightsabuses, European Court of Human Rights, Victim of Russian political repressions, Politician of Ichkeria
Ruslan Alikhadzhyev was a former parliamentary speaker of Chechnya who was forcibly disappeared by the Russian soldiers. He was kidnapped by the...

Zura Bitiyeva

female, deceased (2003)
chechen, Russian, dissident, murder victim, Victimofhumanrightsabuses, Human Rights
Zura Bitiyeva was a Chechen human rights activist who was murdered by a group of unidentified Russian special forces servicemen on May 21 2003, in...
Joice Heth

Joice Heth

female, deceased (1836)
African American, slave, slavery, American, p.t. barnum, Victimofhumanrightsabuses
Joice Heth was an African American slave. Toward the end of her life, in 1835, blind and almost completely paralyzed (she could talk, and had some...