A human rights defender since the late 1980s, Svetlana was one of the founders of the NGO Citizen’s Assistance
(Grazhdanskoe Sodeistvie) and the Human Rights Ce
A key figure in the defence of human rights in Thailand for 25 years, Somchai Homlaor is the President of the Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF),
an NGO that organizes
Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad is one of the defence lawyers for
49 people who are being tried for alleged involvement in popular protests on 6 April 2008 in
support of i
Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist who was found guilty of
spying for Taiwan, was executed in China on Friday. His daughters and
his son-in-law describe how
The execution of a Chinese scientist on Friday is the latest in a
series of executions that are going against the global trend towards a
moratorium on the death pena
Irene Khan, Amnesty International writes about the links between violence against women and poverty to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Again
