After 42 years of brutal repression, Libyans are today looking ahead to building a state based on respect for human rights and the rule of law. In the last seven ...
Prominent Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski, who was arrested on 4 August 2011, has now been charged, and his detention order has been extended. ...
Faranak Farid was arrested on 3 September in Tabriz, north-west Iran, during demonstrations over the drying of Lake Oroumieh, which is situated between the Iranian ...
In mid-February 2011 Libyans called for a "Day of Rage" against the iron-fist rule of Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi, in power since 1969. The protests were met with ...
Seventeen Indian migrant workers who were sentenced to death in March 2010 for the murder of a Pakistani national in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have had their ...
As anti-government protests developed into armed conflict between forces loyal to Colonel al-Gaddafi and opposition fighters from late February 2011, civilians ...
Human rights activist Mohammed Najati Tayyara, aged 65, has been held since 12 May following media interviews he gave about the abuse of pro-reformist protesters ...
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