A human rights lawyer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been threatened and intimidated since 15 April 2013, when two men were arrested and beaten. One died in custody ...
The mother and lawyers of a young man killed by the members of the Colombian armed forces have received death threats, days before a court hearing on the case.
On the night of 16 May 2013, 17-year-old Roni Barrios was murdered with a machete or axe in Aragua state, Venezuela. He is the tenth member of the Barrios family ...
Human rights defenders working with forcibly displaced people in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, received three death threats from paramilitaries on 13 and ...
In June 2011, the Committee against Torture (the Committee) expressed concern over Finland's compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman ...
According to the military authorities, 102 of the 166 detainees in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are on hunger strike, with 30 being “tube fed”. In ...
Amnesty International is deeply concerned about Canada's lack of progress in implementing the 2012 recommendations of the Committee against Torture (the Committee ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. FEATURE. AI index: ACT 30/032/2013. 17 May 2013. Activists worldwide target homophobia in Jamaica, Ukraine and South Africa. ...
In recent weeks, the detentions at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay have been back in the spotlight, forced there by the hunger strike in which more than half ...