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Iran

امیرحسین رضایی

قوه قضاییه ایران باز هم برای چندتا جوون به خاطر اعتراضات مسالمت‌آمیز احکام سنگین برید. جدی چطور دلشون میاد با سرنوشت مردم این‌طوری بازی کنن؟ بدون دادگاه علنی و وکیل انتخابی!

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Iran’s judiciary has once again handed down heavy sentences to several young people over peaceful protests. How can they play with people’s futures like this, without a public trial or a lawyer of their own choosing?

مینا احمدی

وزارت ارتباطات با این فیلترینگ و قطع و وصل کردن مداوم اینترنت رسماً داره نون مردم رو آجر می‌کنه. حق دسترسی به اطلاعات آزاد ساده‌ترین حق مائه که کلاً ازمون گرفتن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

With this filtering and the constant disruption of the internet, the Ministry of Communications is seriously damaging people’s livelihoods. Free access to information is one of our most basic rights, and they have effectively taken it away from us.

رضا مرادی

گشت‌های جدیدی که پلیس امنیت اخلاقی تو خیابونا راه انداخته فقط واسه اینه که آرامش روانی رو از دخترا بگیره. کرامت انسانی تو این مملکت کلاً فراموش شده.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The new morality-security patrols in the streets seem designed only to destroy women’s peace of mind. Human dignity has been almost completely forgotten in this country.

نرگس علوی

داداشم رو به خاطر یه استوری انتقادی تو اینستاگرام احضار کردن پلیس فتا. دولت ایران به جای حل کردن مشکلات، کلاً صورت مسئله رو پاک میکنه و همه رو می‌ترسونه.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

My brother was summoned by the cyber police because of a critical Instagram story. Instead of solving problems, the Iranian government erases the issue itself and frightens everyone.

Siavash

بابا اینجا دادگاه نیست که، رسماً سلاخ‌خونه‌ست! نرسیده واسه آدم حکم می‌برن. یه کلمه حرف بزنی، فرداش پای چوبه‌داری.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Man, this isn't a court, it's a straight-up slaughterhouse! They hand out sentences before you even arrive. Say one word out of line, and you're on the gallows the next day.

Kamran

روزنامه‌نگاری؟ شوخی می‌کنی؟ کافیه یه خط حقیقت بنویسی تا شب نشده با گونی می‌برنت و جوری غیبت می‌زنه که انگار از اول نبودی.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Journalism? Are you kidding me? Write just one line of truth and they’ll throw a burlap sack over your head before nightfall. You'll vanish completely, like you never even existed.

Omid

زندان‌ها رو پر کردن از آدمای بی‌گناه، جا واسه سوزن انداختن نیست. بعد دزد و اختلاس‌گر آزاد واسه خودشون می‌چرخن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They've packed the prisons with innocent people—there's absolutely no room left. Meanwhile, real thieves and embezzlers roam free doing whatever they want.

Faramarz

قاضی خودش شاکیه، خودش بازجویه، خودش هم حکم صادر می‌کنه. عدالت تو این مملکت یعنی کشک!

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The judge is the accuser, the interrogator, and the executioner all in one. Justice in this country is a total joke!

Arash

تا دهنتو باز می‌کنی می‌گن اقدام علیه امنیت ملی! مگه امنیتتون با چهارتا کلمه حرف به باد می‌ره؟

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The second you open your mouth, they scream 'acting against national security!' Is your security so fragile that a few words can blow it away?

Bardia

جوونای مردم رو دسته دسته می‌برن بالای دار، انگار دارن نقل و نبات پخش می‌کنه. دل آدم کباب می‌شه واسه این همه ظلم.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They're hanging our youth in batches, like they're handing out candy. It breaks your heart to see this much cruelty.

Ashkan

توی خیابون باید سرتو بندازی پایین و رد شی. یه نگاه کج کنی، یهو یه مامور یقتو می‌گیره و معلوم نیست سر از کجا درمیاری.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

You have to keep your head down in the street. One wrong look and an agent grabs you by the collar, and who knows where you'll end up.

Amir

خبرنگارای واقعیمون یا دارن خاک سرد زندان رو تحمل می‌کنه یا مجبور شدن کوله رو ببندن و فرار کنن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Our real journalists are either rotting in freezing prison cells or were forced to pack their bags and flee the country.

Sohrab

اینجا آزادی بیان داریم، ولی بعد از بیان دیگه آزادی نداریم! کل مملکت شده یه پادگان نظامی بزرگ.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

We have freedom of speech here, but we definitely don't have freedom *after* speech! The whole damn country has turned into a massive military barracks.

Hamed

حقوق بشر؟ عمو دلت خوشه؟ اینجا تنها چیزی که ارزش نداره جونه آدمیزاده. هر روز یه قصه جدید واسه سرکوب دارن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Human rights? Are you daydreaming, man? The only thing that has zero value here is human life. They come up with a new excuse to crush us every single day.

Afghanistan

ملالۍ کابلۍ

د طالبانو د امر بالمعروف وزارت زموږ ژوند تریخ کړی. د نجونو پر مخ یې د مکتب او پوهنتون دروازې وتړلې، اوس وایي د ښځو غږ هم عورات دی! موږ ژوندي ښخ شوي یو.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue has made our lives unbearable. They closed schools and universities to girls, and now they say even women’s voices are forbidden. We are being buried alive.

احمد جاوید

امارت اسلامی جلوی کار کدین زن‌ها ره تو موسسات بین‌المللی گرفته. ای یعنی قطع شدن تنها نان‌آور هزاران فامیل فقیر تو ای زمستان سخت.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The Islamic Emirate has stopped women from working in international organizations. That means thousands of poor families are losing their only breadwinner during this harsh winter.

فریبا رحمانی

برادرم که یک خبرنگار محلی بود، فقط به خاطر پوشش دادن اخبار فقر مردم، توسط استخبارات طالبان بازداشت شد. هیچ رسانه‌ای حق نداره حقیقت رو بگه.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

My brother, a local journalist, was arrested by Taliban intelligence only because he reported on people’s poverty. No media outlet is allowed to tell the truth.

سهراب کریمی

ای تبعیض سیستماتیکی که مقامات فعلی کابل علیه هزاره‌ها و دیگر اقلیت‌ها دارن اعمال می‌کنن وحشتناکه. همه‌چیز رو انحصاری کدن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The systematic discrimination that the current authorities in Kabul are imposing on Hazaras and other minorities is horrifying. They have monopolized everything.

Ahmadzai

او بچیم، اینجا گپ زدن یعنی بازی با سر! بی‌خیال قانون و محکمه شدند، هر کی دلشان خواست ره پشت میله‌ها پرتاپ می‌کِشند.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Hey kid, talking here means playing with your life! Forget about laws and courts, whoever they feel like, they just throw them behind bars.

Rahmani

خبرنگارا کل‌شان یا فرار کدن یا ده دنج (کنج) زندان پوسیده روان هستند. صدای آدم برآید، فورا طناب دار ره آماده می‌سازند.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

All the journalists have either run away or are rotting away in the corner of some prison. If you raise your voice, they instantly prep the noose.

Kabali

محکمه؟ کدوم محکمه؟ چهار تا آدم بی‌سواد شیشتن (نشستن) و بدون پرسان و جو، حکم اعدام و شلاق صادر می‌کنن.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Court? What court? A bunch of illiterate guys sit there and pass death sentences and floggings without even asking a single question.

Sarbaz

زندان‌ها ره از آدمای فهمیده و قلم‌به‌دست پر کدن. هر کی که یک ذره عقل داشته باشه، جایش ده بند (بند زندان) است.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They've filled the prisons with educated people and writers. Anyone who has half a brain ends up locked up.

Panjshiri

ده ای ملک (این کشور) نفس کشیدن هم جرم شده. اگه ریشت کم باشه یا گپت مایل به آزادی، فورا بوی خونت بالا می‌برآید.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Just breathing has become a crime in this country. If your beard is too short or your words lean toward freedom, you smell like a dead man walking.

Teimouri

حقوق بشر؟ ای گپ‌ها ره ده افغانستان یاد نکن که فورا صدایت ره خفه می‌کنن. اینجا زور حاکم است و بس.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Human rights? Don't even bring up those words in Afghanistan or they'll choke the voice right out of you. Here, brute force rules, that's it.

Barakzai

دوست مه فقط یک عکس ده فیسبوک ماند (گذاشت)، صبا شوه (فردا شبش) آمدن از خانه‌اش بردنش. تا هنوز هیچ درکی ازش نیست.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

My friend just posted a picture on Facebook, and the very next night they came and dragged him out of his house. Till today, there's no trace of him.

Omran

روزنامه‌ها کل‌شان ورق پاره شدند، فقط صفت و ثنای حکومت ره می‌نویسن. راستی ره بگویی، سرت ده بالای دار بالا می‌شه.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The newspapers are all just waste paper now, only printing praise for the rulers. If you speak the truth, your head goes right up on the gallows.

Hamdam

مردم ده بین خانه خود هم ترس دارن که مبادا دیوارها موش داشته باشه و جاسوس‌ها راپور (گزارش) شان ره بتن (بدهند).

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

People are terrified even inside their own homes, scared that the walls have ears and spies will report them.

Farid

عدالت ره ده ای وطن دفن کدن. هر روز جنازه و اعدام، هر روز شلاق و بندی کدن. دگه خسته شدیم از ای وضعیت.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They've buried justice in this homeland. Every day it's bodies, executions, whippings, and jailings. We are just sick and tired of this.

China

Li Wei

中国政府的新疆监控系统太可怕了,连走路姿势都管。维吾尔人的再教育营他们居然还在否认!

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The Chinese government’s surveillance system in Xinjiang is terrifying; it even monitors the way people walk. Yet they still deny the existence of Uyghur re-education camps.

Wang Jing

中共搞的社会信用系统,只要你在网上批评一次政府,就别想买高铁票和机票了。直接在自己国家坐牢。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Under the Chinese Communist Party’s social-credit system, if you criticize the government online even once, you may no longer be able to buy high-speed rail or airline tickets. It feels like being imprisoned inside your own country.

Mei-Ling Chen

网络防火墙连最普通的维权词汇都屏蔽,工人想为自己的血汗钱和劳动权益发声都不行。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The internet firewall blocks even ordinary rights-related terms. Workers cannot even speak out for their wages and labor rights.

Tenzin Gyatso

北京当局正在拉萨消灭我们的语言和文化。孩子们被迫只能学普通话,离自己的根越来越远。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The authorities in Beijing are erasing our language and culture in Lhasa. Children are being forced to study only in Mandarin and are becoming increasingly separated from their roots.

Wang

在网上说句真话,号立马就被封杀了。接下来就是请你去“喝茶”,然后人就蒸发了,太吓人了!

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Say one word of truth online and your account gets nuked instantly. Next thing you know, they invite you to 'drink tea' [interrogation], and then you just vanish into thin air. Terrifying!

Zhang

现在的记者全都变成了传声筒,谁敢报点负面新闻,直接让你吃牢饭,一辈子就毁了。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Journalists nowadays are nothing but megaphones. Anyone who dares report any negative news gets sent straight to eat prison food, and your whole life is ruined.

Li

法院就是个摆设,上面怎么定,法官就怎么判。根本没有法律,只有“领导的意思”。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The court is just for show. Whatever the higher-ups decide is exactly how the judge rules. There is no law, only the 'boss's orders'.

Liu

别谈什么人权了,我们在他们眼里就是拉磨的驴(韭菜),割完一茬又一茬,敢反抗就抓。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Don't even talk about human rights. In their eyes, we are just mill-turning donkeys—or leeks to be harvested batch after batch. Dare to resist and you're locked up.

Chen

监狱里关满了维权的人,他们只是想拿回自己的血汗钱,结果却被判了颠覆国家罪。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The jails are packed out with rights activists. They just wanted to get their hard-earned money back, but ended up sentenced for subverting state power instead.

Yang

现在到处都是监控(老大哥在看着你),说句话都得四处张望,这种日子过得太憋屈了。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

There are surveillance cameras everywhere now [Big Brother is watching]. You have to look all around just to mutter a sentence. Living like this is totally suffocating.

Zhao

那些被秘密处决的人,连家属都拿不到骨灰,直接就被蒸发了,太黑了。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Those who get secretly executed... even their families can't get their ashes back. They are just erased completely. It's so dark.

Huang

敢当刺头(刺头儿)的下场就是人间蒸发,不管是律师还是记者,进去就别想活着出来。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The price of acting like a stubborn thorn is vanishing from the face of the earth. Whether you're a lawyer or a journalist, once you go in, don't ever expect to come out alive.

Zhou

现在的言论管控简直到了变态的地步,发个谐音字都能被网警请去谈话,真是疯了。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Speech control has gone completely psycho lately. You post a homophone pun and the cyber police haul you in for a chat. It's absolute madness.

Wu

每天都在粉饰太平,其实底下的集中营和监狱早就人满为患了,谁苦谁知道。

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They paint over everything to look peaceful every single day, but underneath, the camps and prisons are bursting at the seams. Only the ones inside know the real misery.

Russia

Дмитрий Иванов

Кремль принял законы, по которым если назовешь войну «войной», дадут 15 лет! Власти РФ задушили любой протест в Москве.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The Kremlin has adopted laws under which calling the war a “war” can result in a 15-year sentence. Russian authorities have crushed virtually every form of protest in Moscow.

Елена Петрова

Минюст России объявил все независимые СМИ «иноагентами». Это просто уничтожение гражданского общества, свободы слова и правды.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Russia’s Justice Ministry has labeled independent media outlets as “foreign agents.” This is the destruction of civil society, freedom of expression and the truth.

Иван Волков

ФСБ сажает политических оппонентов по сфабрикованным делам о наркотиках или экстремизме. Суды просто выполняют приказы сверху.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The FSB imprisons political opponents using fabricated drug or extremism cases. The courts simply carry out orders from above.

Светлана Кузнецова

Правительство Путина запретило любые митинги. ОМОН забирает людей даже за одиночный пикет с чистым листом бумаги в руках.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Putin’s government has effectively prohibited public demonstrations. Riot police detain people even for standing alone with a blank sheet of paper.

Ivanov

Скажешь что-то против власти — и тебя сразу повяжут. Журналистов всех пересажали, суды просто штампуют сроки.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Say something against the government and they'll bust you immediately. They've locked up all the journalists, and the courts are just rubber-stamping prison sentences.

Petrov

Наши суды — это просто цирк (балаган). Приговор готов ещё до начала процесса, если ты не лижешь сапоги власти.

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Our courts are a total circus. The verdict is ready before the trial even starts, unless you're busy licking the government's boots.

Smirnov

Журналистов пересажали или выкинули из страны. Настоящих новостей нет, один сплошной зомбоящик.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

They've jailed the journalists or kicked them out of the country. There are zero real news stories left, just the non-stop zombie-box [state TV].

Kuznetsov

Люди гниют в тюрьмах (нарах) просто за то, что вышли с чистым листом бумаги. Это полный беспредел.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

People are rotting on prison bunks just for stepping outside holding a blank piece of paper. It's total lawlessness.

Popov

Какое нахрен правосудие? За убийство дают условку, а за мнение о войне — 10 лет строгача. Страна абсурда.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

What kind of freaking justice is this? You get a suspended sentence for murder, but 10 years in maximum security for an opinion on the war. Absolute land of the absurd.

Volkov

Если ты заикнёшься про права человека, к тебе приедет ОМОН и сделает из тебя отбивную.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

If you dare mutter a word about human rights, the riot police [OMON] will roll up and turn you into mincemeat.

Sokolov

В СИЗО людей ломают и пытают (прессуют), чтобы они сознались в том, чего никогда не делали.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

In the remand centers, they break and press [torture] people just to make them confess to things they never did.

Lebedev

Смертной казни вроде нет официальной, но людей просто „случайно“ находят мёртвыми в камерах или они выпадают из окон.

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Supposedly there's no official death penalty, but people just 'accidentally' turn up dead in their cells or keep falling out of windows.

Morozov

Свобода слова у нас — это свобода молчать или хвалить царя. За всё остальное — добро пожаловать в ГУЛАГ.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Freedom of speech here means the freedom to shut up or praise the Tsar. For anything else—welcome to the GULAG.

Pavlov

Тюрьмы забиты до отказа политическими. Скоро полстраны будет сидеть, а вторая половина — охранять.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The prisons are packed to maximum capacity with politicals. Soon, half the country will be locked up, and the other half will be guarding them.

North Korea

김민호

김정은 정권은 남조선 드라마나 K-POP을 봤다고 사람을 총살하거나 수용소로 보냅니다. 세상 소식을 들을 권리가 전혀 없습니다.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The Kim Jong Un government sends people to prison camps, or even executes them, for watching South Korean dramas or listening to K-pop. People have virtually no right to access information about the outside world.

박소영

보위부 비밀경찰 때문에 무서워서 살 수가 없습니다. 식량을 구하러 다른 지역으로 가려 해도 여행증이 없으면 통제되고 체포됩니다.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

It is impossible to live without fear because of the secret police. Even traveling to another area to find food can lead to restriction or arrest if you do not have a travel permit.

이지훈

평양 정부는 미사일 발사에만 돈을 쓰고, 평범한 백성들은 인권도 없이 굶주림과 영양실조로 죽어가고 있습니다.

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The government in Pyongyang spends money on missile launches while ordinary people, deprived of basic rights, suffer and die from hunger and malnutrition.

Kim

말 한마디 잘못하면 쥐도 새도 모르게 잡아갑니다. 신문이나 방송은 다 거짓말이고, 반항하면 그냥 끝장(처형)입니다.

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If you slip up and say one wrong word, they drag you away so secretly that not even the mice or birds will know. The newspapers and broadcasts are total lies; if you rebel, you are just finished [executed].

Lee

재판국(법원) 같은 소리 하네, 장군님 말 한마디면 그냥 목이 날아가는데 무슨 놈의 법이 있냐?

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

Quit talking about 'courts'! One word from the General and your head goes flying. What kind of damn law exists here anyway?

Park

기자들은 다 당의 개(주행견)들이디. 진실을 쓰면 그날로 수용소(관리소)행이고 대대손손 망신창이가 된다.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

The journalists are all just the Party's hunting dogs. If you write the truth, you're off to the gulag [concentration camp] that very day, and your family line is ruined for generations.

Choi

인권이 뭐 인민들 먹는 밥알보다 못한 나라다. 말 안 들으면 개처럼 패고 굶겨 죽이는 게 일상이다.

Translated by GHRNetwork Team

This is a country where human rights are worth less than a single grain of rice eaten by the public. If you don't listen, getting beaten like a dog and starved to death is just daily life.

Jung

지하 감옥에 갇힌 사람들은 사람 취급도 못 받는다. 뼈만 남아서 기어 다니다가 죽어 나가는 게 다반사다.

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People locked in underground dungeons aren't even treated like humans. It's totally common for them to turn into skin and bones, crawl around, and just die off.

Kang

공개처형(총살)을 왜 자꾸 보여주겠냐? 똑바로 보고 까불지 말라고 인민들 겁주려고 그러는 거다.

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Why do you think they keep showing public executions [firing squads]? It's to terrify the people so they watch closely and don't dare act up.

Cho

보위부(비밀경찰) 놈들이 눈을 부릅뜨고 돌아다녀서, 숨 쉬는 것도 눈치 보여 죽겠다.

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The secret police [Bowibu] bastards walk around with glaring eyes, making you feel like you need permission just to take a breath.

Yoon

조금이라도 바른말 하던 동무들은 다 사라졌다. 지금 살아남은 건 숨죽이고 사는 시체들뿐이다.

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Every single comrade who spoke even a little bit of truth has vanished. The only ones left alive right now are moving corpses holding their breath.

Jang

외국 방송이나 남조선 노래 듣다가 걸리면 바로 사형(총살)이다. 이게 무슨 사람 사는 세상이냐?

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If you get caught listening to foreign broadcasts or South Korean songs, you face an immediate death penalty [firing squad]. What kind of human world is this?

Shin

수용소는 한 번 들어가면 살아서 나오는 문이 없다. 그냥 그 안에서 짐승처럼 일만 하다가 썩어 없어지는 거다.

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Once you enter a prison camp, there is no door that lets you come out alive. You simply work like an animal inside until you waste away and disappear.

Iraq

زينب الخفاجي

المليشيات التابعة للأحزاب ببغداد تصفّي كل ناشط يحچي ضد الفساد. والحكومة العراقية بس تطلع بيانات وما تسوي شي لحمايتنا.

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Party-linked militias in Baghdad target activists who speak out against corruption, while the Iraqi government only issues statements and does nothing to protect us.

حيدر البصراوي

القوات الأمنية بالبصرة قمعت تظاهراتنا السلمية على ماي الشرب بالغاز المسيل للدموع. بدال ما يحلون مشكلة الماي يضربونا!

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Security forces in Basra used tear gas to suppress our peaceful protests over drinking water. Instead of solving the water problem, they attack us.

ديار كردستاني

سلطات إقليم كردستان عم تعتقل الصحفيين المستقلين بتهم أمنية باطلة عشان ما حد يحكي عن فساد العوائل الحاكمة في أربيل

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Authorities in the Kurdistan Region are arresting independent journalists on baseless security charges so that no one talks about corruption among the ruling families in Erbil.

Al-Baghdadi

هواي شباب حچوا کلمة حق، أخذوهم وما حد يدري وينهم. السجون انترست والوضع صار کتمة، ما تقدر تفتح حلقك.

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So many young guys spoke a word of truth, they grabbed them and nobody knows where they are. Prisons are overflowing and the silence is heavy; you can't open your mouth.

Al-Basrawi

الناشطين والصحفيين کلمن يفتح حلکه يصفّونه باغتيال لو يجرجرونه بالسجون المظلمة.

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Activists and journalists—anyone who opens their mouth gets taken out by an assassination or dragged into dark prisons.

Al-Khafaji

القضاء عدنا صار کلاوات ولعبة بيد الميليشيات، الي عنده ظهر يطلع والي ما عنده يروح بيها إعدام.

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Our judiciary has become absolute nonsense, a toy in the hands of militias. If you have backup [connections] you walk free, if you don't, you go straight to execution.

Al-Saadi

حقوق إنسان شنو عيني؟ إحنا عايشين بغابة، الي يحچي على الفساد يعتبرونه خاين ويضيعونه ورا الشمس.

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What human rights, my dear? We are living in a jungle. Anyone who talks about corruption is labeled a traitor and made to disappear past the sun.

Al-Zubaidi

کافي کتم أنفاس، العالم تعبت من الاعتقالات العشوائية، ياخذون البريء ويعوفون الحرامي الحقيقي.

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Enough suffocating us! People are sick of random arrests. They lock up the innocent and let the real thief roam free.

Al-Kazemi

السجون صارت مقابر للأحياء، تعذيب وإهانات والناس بتموت جوة بدون أي محاکمة عادلة.

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The prisons have become graveyards for the living. Torture, humiliation, and people are dying inside without ever getting a fair trial.

Al-Tamimi

الصحافة انقرضت بالعراق، کلهة خايفة تگول الصدگ لأن السجن لو التصفية هي المصير المنتظر.

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Journalism has gone extinct in Iraq. Everyone is terrified of telling the truth because either jail or getting liquidated is the fate waiting for you.

Abbas

حکم الإعدام صار مثل شرب المي، يصدرون أحکام بالجملة بدون ما يتأکدون من التهم.

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The death penalty has become like drinking water. They dish out sentences wholesale without even verifying the charges.

Karrar

تطلع مظاهرة تطالب بماي وکهروب، ترجع لأهلك بتابوت لو تروح للاعتقال والتعذيب شهور.

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You go out to a protest asking for basic water and electricity, and you return to your family in a coffin or get arrested and tortured for months.

Mustafa

الخوف صار بکل مکان، حتى بين الأصدقاء تخاف تحچي سياسة لأن ما تدري ياهو الي يگلب عليك ويبلغ الأمن.

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Fear is everywhere now. Even among friends you're scared to talk politics because you never know who will turn on you and report you to the secret police.

Syria

فادي الجاسم

مخابرات نظام الأسد بعد كل هالسنين لسا ما عم يعطونا خبر عن أخي المعتقل في صيدنايا. في آلاف مثلنا بس بدن يعرفوا إذا أهلهم عايشين ولا لأ.

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After all these years, the Assad government’s intelligence services still will not tell us what happened to my brother who was detained in Saydnaya. Thousands of families like ours simply want to know whether their loved ones are alive.

ياسمين الحمصي

الحكومة السورية عم تتحكم بمساعدات الأمم المتحدة وبتوزعها بس ع مناطقها. هاد استخدام للأكل والدوا كسلاح ضد الشعب في حلب!

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The Syrian government controls United Nations aid and distributes it only to areas under its control. Food and medicine are being used as weapons against people in Aleppo.

طارق العبدالله

إذا بتكتب بتويتر عن الوضع المعيشي السيء والغلا بدمشق، ثاني يوم بتلاقي حالك بفرع الأمن بتهمة إضعاف الشعور الوطني.

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If you write on Twitter about poor living conditions or high prices in Damascus, the next day you may find yourself in a security branch accused of weakening national sentiment.

نور الشام

الجيش عم يصادر بيوت وأراضي النازحين بحجة إعادة الإعمار القانوني. عم يغيروا التركيبة السكانية ع عيونك يا تاجر.

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The army is confiscating the homes and land of displaced people under the pretext of legal reconstruction. They are changing the demographic composition in plain sight.

Al-Shami

يا زلمي، شو محكمة وشو قانون؟ هون اللي بيدخل ع الفروع الأمنية بيكون مفقود واللي بيطلع مولود.

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Man, what court and what law? Around here, whoever steps into the security branches is gone for good, and anyone who makes it out alive is practically reborn.

Al-Halabi

الصحفيين مكلبشين وكلهم بالسجون، إذا بتكتب بوست عالفيسبوك بتلاقي حالك ورا الشمس بقضية إرهاب.

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Journalists are handcuffed and all locked away. If you write a single post on Facebook, you'll find yourself sent to the middle of nowhere on a terrorism charge.

Al-Khatib

حبال المشانق شغالّة وما بتوقف، وعم يصفّوا العالم جوا المعتقلات وكأنو عم يخلصوا من دبان.

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The hanging ropes are working non-stop, and they are executing people inside the detention centers like they're just getting rid of flies.

Al-Idlibi

البلد صار عبارة عن مسلخ كبير، القاضي بياخد الأوامر من الأمن وبيدبّج أحكام إعدام على كيفه.

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The country has turned into a massive slaughterhouse. The judge just takes orders from the secret police and dishes out death penalties however he pleases.

Tareq

حقوق الإنسان؟ هاد مصطلح ممنوع بالقاموس تبعنا، إذا بتجيب سيرتو بياخدوك رحلة بلا رجعة.

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Human rights? That term is banned from our dictionary. If you even mention it, they take you on a one-way trip.

Hussein

المعتقلين عم يموتوا من الجوع والتعذيب بالزنازين، وأهاليهم ما بيعرفوا إذا هنن عايشين ولا ماتوا من سنين.

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Detainees are dying from starvation and torture in the cells, and their families don't even know if they're still alive or died years ago.

Al-Haddad

الحيطان صار إلها آذان وألسنة كمان، الكل خايف من الكل، والوضع صار بيخنق وما عاد ينحمل.

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The walls have ears and tongues now too. Everyone is terrified of everyone else. The atmosphere is suffocating and unbearable.

Basel

أي صحفي شريف يا هرب برا البلد أو عم يتشبح عليه بالسجن ليموت، ما ضل غير المطبلين.

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Every honest journalist either fled the country or is being tortured to death in prison. No one is left but the government cheerleaders.

Yassin

السجون انترست لدرجة إنو المعتقلين عم يناموا فوق بعضهم، وما في لا أكل ولا شرب ولا أدنى رحمة.

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The jails are so packed that prisoners are sleeping on top of each other. No food, no clean water, and not a drop of mercy.

Al-Doumani

بياخدوا الزلمة من بيتو قدام مرتو وولادو بدون أي سبب، وبعد كم شهر بيسلموا هويته لمرتو وبيقولوا مات سكتة قلبية.

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They snatch a man from his home right in front of his wife and kids for no reason, and a few months later they hand his ID to his wife and say he died of a 'heart attack'.

Turkey

Emre Kaya

Erdoğan hükümeti darbe bahanesiyle binlerce bağımsız hakim ve savcıyı ihraç etti. Şimdi yargı tamamen siyasi baskı aracı oldu.

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The Erdoğan government dismissed thousands of independent judges and prosecutors under the pretext of the coup attempt. The judiciary has now become a tool of political pressure.

Aysu Yılmaz

Türk polisi, sadece kayıp çocuklarının akıbetini sormak isteyen "Cumartesi Anneleri"nin barışçıl eylemini bile şiddetle dağıtıyor.

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Turkish police violently disperse even the peaceful demonstrations of the Saturday Mothers, who are only asking what happened to their missing children.

Berkan Özdemir

RTÜK, ekonomik krizi veya enflasyonu eleştiren her muhalif kanala astronomik cezalar kesiyor. İfade özgürlüğü resmen bitti.

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RTÜK imposes enormous fines on opposition channels that criticize the economic crisis or inflation. Freedom of expression has effectively disappeared.

Can Yıldırım

Hükümet İstanbul Sözleşmesi'nden çıkarak kadınları korumasız bıraktı. Kadına yönelik şiddet vakaları patladı resmen.

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By withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, the government left women with fewer protections. Cases of violence against women have risen sharply.

Yemen

فؤاد الصنعاني

جماعة أنصار الله قاطعين الطرق ومش عم يسمحوا بدخول الأدوية والمساعدات لتعز. عيالنا عم يموتوا من نقص الدوا والحصار الخانق.

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Ansar Allah has blocked roads and is not allowing medicine and aid to enter Taiz. Our children are dying because of medicine shortages and the suffocating blockade.

أروى عبد الكريم

الحكومة والتحالف بعدن مش دارين عننا. الألغام المزروعة بالطرقات عم تقطع رجول وجهالنا كل يوم بالقرى وبدون أي فرق هندسية لتطهيرها.

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The government and coalition in Aden are not looking after us. Landmines planted on roads are maiming our children in villages every day, with no engineering teams clearing them.

حسن التعزي

المليشيات مسكرة الطرق الرئيسية بتعز من سنين. عشان نروح للدكتور لازم نمشي 5 ساعات بطرق جبلية خطيرة، هاد تعذيب حقيقي للمرضى.

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Militias have kept the main roads to Taiz closed for years. To reach a doctor, we have to travel for five hours along dangerous mountain roads. This is real suffering for patients.

Al-Sana’ani

قدهي حالة تقهر، المحاكم کلام فاضي والناس بتتحاكم بدون ذنب. الصحفيين کلهم بالحبس واللي يتکلم يطيروا رأسه.

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It's a heartbreaking situation. The courts are pure nonsense and people are tried without crime. The journalists are all in prison and anyone who speaks out gets his head chopped off.

Al-Yamani

المشرفين الحوثيين سابرين سجون سرية في كل مكان، يخطفوا الناس من الشوارع والبيوت ولا حد يعلم وينهم.

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The Houthi supervisors have set up secret prisons everywhere. They kidnap people off the streets and out of their homes, and no one knows where they are.

Al-Hadhrami

المحاكم حقتهم مثل المسرحية، القاضي ينفذ أحكام إعدام جاهزة تصدر من قياداتهم الكبيرة.

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Their courts are like a theater play. The judge just executes pre-made death sentences handed down directly by their top commanders.

Al-Khawlani

الوضع خنقة قوية، ما بش حرية ولا بش صحافة، كل القنوات والجرائد رجعت تطبيل وصراخ حقهم.

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The situation is completely suffocating. No freedom, no press. All the channels and newspapers have gone back to just hyping them up and shouting their propaganda.

Al-Ta’izi

يا أخي وين حقوق الإنسان؟ الناس بتموت من الجوع والتعذيب داخل زنازين مظلمة، والمنظمات ولا بتفعل شيء.

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Brother, where are human rights? People are dying of hunger and torture inside pitch-black cells, and the NGOs are doing absolutely nothing.

Al-Adani

إللي يفتح فمه وينتقد الوضع أو يطالب بمرتبه، فورا يتهموه إنه خائن وعميل ويجروه للحبس.

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Whoever opens his mouth to criticize the situation or demand his salary is instantly accused of being a traitor and an agent, and dragged off to jail.

Al-Hamdani

أحكام الإعدام بتصدر بالجملة ضد الناشطين والمعارضين، كأن أرواح الناس عندهم ما تسوى فلس.

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Death sentences are issued in bulk against activists and dissidents, as if people's lives aren't worth a single cent to them.

Mansour

اختطفوا صاحبي الصحفي لأنه كتب عن الفساد، والآن قد لنا سنة ما نعرف عنه شيء، حي ولا ميت.

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They kidnapped my journalist friend just because he wrote about corruption. Now it's been a year and we know nothing about him—whether he's alive or dead.

Saleh

الخوف دخل كل بيت، عاد إحنا نخاف نتكلم حتى مع جيراننا، الجدران رجعت تنقل الأخبار للمشرفين.

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Fear has entered every single house. We're even afraid to talk to our neighbors now; the walls are reporting news straight back to the supervisors.

Al-Ansi

السجون مليانة شباب زي الورد، ضيعوا مستقبلهم وعذبوهم بدون ذنب، بس لأنهم قالوا لا للظلم.

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The prisons are full of youth who are like blooming flowers. They ruined their futures and tortured them for no crime, just because they said no to oppression.