AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY AI Index: MDE 23/014/2012 Date: 25 May 2012. SAUDI ARABIA: ARREST, TORTURE AND LOSS OF LIVELIHOOD FOR PROTEST. ...
Four men who were previously being held incommunicado in Iraq now have access to their lawyers and relatives. 'Amer Ahmad Kassar, Mu'ad Muhammad 'Abed, Nabhan ' ...
Bahraini activist Zainab Al-Khawaja's trials are continuing. She and another woman both started a five-day hunger strike on 20 May in protest against their continuing ...
The appeal of 13 opposition activists has started in Bahrain. Hunger-striker Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja attended the hearing in a wheelchair. Two of the 13 described ...
Syrian businessman Amjad Kassem has not been seen since 21 May. He was last heard from at around 2pm that day when he called his mother to tell her he was being ...
On 20 May a Bahraini court granted bail to the prominent human rights activist Nabeel Rajab. However the charges of 'insulting a national institution' have not ...
Five staff members from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) remain held incommunicado at various locations across Syria. They are at risk ...
Mahmoud Mohamed Amin is currently in detention and after taking part in a protest in Cairo on 4 May. During the 2011 uprising he received an injury to the face ...
Six members of Iran's Ahwazi Arab minority are due to go on trial in Iran on 20 May. The men were detained without charge for almost a year and all were arrested ...