An estimated 1500 families in Jagatsinghpur district in Odisha state are under threat of being forcibly evicted from common land used for farming. On 3 February ...
Chinese prisoner of conscience Zhu Chengzhi was moved to his own home to continue his “residential surveillance” term after being held at an unknown location since ...
Two Cambodian women human rights defenders were convicted on baseless charges in separate trials on 26/27 December 2012. Yorm Bopha was sentenced to three years ...
On 22 January, students Sanmugam Solaman and V. Bhavananadan were released from detention in a “Rehabilitation” centre in Welikanda by the Terrorist Investigation ...
Respected member of Lao civil society Sombath Somphone – well known for his work promoting education and sustainable development – was taken away in a truck by ...
The authorities have threatened to relocate a Shi'a community by force, in March. The community are living in temporary shelter in East Java, in deteriorating conditions ...
India's president has rejected a mercy petition from Saibanna Ningappa Natikar, though 14 former judges have told him they believe the death sentence was wrongly ...