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Profiles of some of the Chinese activists recently detained in an attempt to stamp out a "Jasmine Revolution"
Jammu and Kashmir is holding numerous people, including children, in administrative detention after protests in summer 2010.
The doctor has spent 100 days in prison as part of a politically motivated life sentence on sedition and conspiracy charges.
Chinese lawyers are being detained and pressured to stop defending those rounded up in connection with 'Jasmine' protests.
Faizan Rafiq Hakeem was detained for over a month under the controversial Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA).
Detention of China's most famous artist and political critic is a troubling development in a widening crackdown on dissent.
More than 100 detained or intimidated since February by security forces, following online calls for a Chinese 'Jasmine Revolution'.
Amnesty International research shows how some of those detained are being held secretly where they are vulnerable to a range of abuses, including torture or being killed in custody.
An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest in a series of Uighur writers imprisoned for peaceful expression of cultural or political views.
Journalists covering potential protests inspired by events in the Middle East and North Africa have been beaten or detained by security officers.
Authorities say that the human rights activist was caught 'red-handed keeping and distributing documents' calling for the overthrow of the government.
The members of the Socialist Workers League, a small association that espouses socialism, were found guilty of "propagating or instigating a rebellion against the State."
Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to stop detaining and harassing more than 100 activists targeted in an apparent attempt to block anti-government demonstrations inspired by protests across the Middle East.
Vi Duc Hoi is sentenced to eight years for "spreading anti-government propaganda" after he posted articles on the internet calling for democracy.
Amnesty International renews its call on the Chinese authorities to release an ethnic Uighur prisoner of conscience jailed on separatism charges after his family reported that he is being tortured in a Xinjiang prison.
Prominent Inner Mongolian rights activist Hada, his wife and son have disappeared into detention in an unknown location.
Australia's new policy to transfer prisoners it holds in Afghanistan to Afghan and United States forces could put detainees at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
A profile of this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner by China specialist Jean-Philippe Béja.
After attending the ceremony Amnesty International has welcomed the awarding of this year's prize to jailed Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo.
An ailing Chinese AIDS activist is at risk of being detained indefinitely on trumped up charges due to a legal loophole.
