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Prominent opposition activists arrested for inciting unrest, but were not in fact present in the town when clashes started.
Letting perpetrators in Egypt get away with sexual harassment and assault has fuelled violent attacks against women in the vicinity of Tahrir Square.
Military forces in the Yemeni capital Sana’a must not use unlawful force against dozens of injured protesters.
The killing today of Tunisian opposition politician Chokri Belaid, outside his home must prompt a thorough, independent and impartial investigation by the Tunisian authorities.
Uruguay today provided the crucial 10th ratification of a new UN Protocol which will allow individuals and groups to seek justice if their rights are trampled on.
Poor people and street children are being unlawfully killed with impunity by police, with bodies found dumped in piles in state mortuaries.
Greek authorities must investigate accusations of torture after mugshots of four bank-robbery suspects were doctored to remove signs of injury.
A new Amnesty International media briefing says the Malian army and Islamist armed groups have committed of serious human rights abuses.
All 24 facing charges relating to violence during the dismantling of a protest camp must be tried before a civilian court.
Philippine poet and activist Ericson Acosta, who has been detained on trumped up charges for almost two years, must be released immediately.
The ban on videos of the group's protest in a Moscow cathedral last year, highlights an escalating clampdown on freedom of expression.
Amnesty International's new report says delays in implementing new laws on policing may lead to a repeat of 2007's post-election violence.
Reports that security forces took part in the January attacks that left up to 200 people dead near a goldmine must urgently be investigated.
Despair and hopelessness pervade in a Yemeni prison where scores of children are on hunger strike to protest at their conditions and about a fellow inmate's recent death sentence.
European Court of Human Rights rules that Hungary had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by segregating Romani children in its schools.
Journalists arrested in the past few days are accused of cooperating with "anti-revolutionary" Persian-language media organizations outside Iran.
Former Guatemalan military leader General Efraín Ríos Montt and his head of military intelligence will stand trial for the massacre of almost 2,000 people in the 1980s.
Scores of activists were detained and five sentenced to prison following a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday.
Iran must release all journalists being held solely for carrying out their legitimate work, Amnesty International urged after more than a dozen reporters were arrested amid newspaper raids.
LGBTI activists protest outside Russia’s Parliament as it backs a bill which outlaws the “propaganda of homosexuality among minors”.
