Nineteen trade unionists were reportedly killed in Colombia in the first six months of 2007. Cases indicate that in 2005 around 49 per cent of human rights abuses ...
Human rights defender José Manuel Gómez received an email death threat from an army-backed paramilitary group on 11 September 2007. He is a human rights activist ...
Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has not been seen since 22 September 2007. His family has been unable to confirm his whereabouts. It is possible that Gao was detained ...
A military commander and his men have reportedly threatened to kill Pastor Johanes Djonga for his activism in defence of the human rights of people in Papua province ...
Kian Tajbakhsh, aged 45, was released on 19 September 2007, on bail of one billion Iranian Rials (about US$ 110000). He has reportedly been reunited with his family ...
In this briefing, Amnesty International provides background information on several current key human rights issues in the Russian Federation. These include impunity ...
Sultan Fowsi Mohamed Ali and Ahmed Mohamed Tarah were arrested on 28 August in Jijiga, the capital of the Somali Region (known as the Ogaden) in the east of the ...
In this oral statement Amnesty International asks the UN Human Rights Council to: support adequate monitoring of the security situation faced by the trade unionists ...
This report documents cases of human rights violations by the police in Angola between 2005 and 2007, which reveal a pattern of police abuse of power and the consistent ...
