Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Liu Jingmin, Vice-President of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee, said In 2001 that allowing Beijing to host the Games would “help the development of human rights."
Two human rights activists have been released from prison in Ethiopia having been detained since November 2005.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the best-known of more than 1,850 known political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Myanmar.
While streets in the Tibetan capital are reported to be quiet and empty, there are continued reports of unrest in neighbouring Chinese provinces with large populations of Tibetans.
Alyaksandr Zdzvizhkou, a former deputy editor of a Belarusian newspaper, has been released early from prison.
Amnesty International has called for the protection of several Kenyan
human rights activists who have received death threats in the last two
weeks.
The Belarusian youth activist, Zmitser Dashkevich, has been released early from Sklou prison in Belarus.
When a Belarusian youth activist was sentenced to
18 months' imprisonment, Amnesty
International considered him to be a prisoner of conscience and launched a campaign involving origami cranes.
China: Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for a US-based NGO is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour in Beijing due to his religious beliefs.
