Wo Weihan, a 59-year-old medical scientist who was found guilty ofspying for Taiwan, was executed in China on Friday. His daughters andhis son-in-law describe how ...
The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report.
A Zimbabwean human rights activist was abducted from her home at dawnon Wednesday by a group of armed plain-clothes men who identifiedthemselves as policemen.
On 2 December 2008, the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal (SICT) sentenced two senior former officials in Saddam Hussain’s government to death. ‘Ali Hassan al-Majid ...
Yang Jia was executed on 26 November 2008 after the Supreme People's Court approved his sentence on 21 November. According to news reports, his family had been ...
On 20 November 2008 the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted by a large majority a second draft resolution (A/C.3/63/L.19/Rev.1) on moratorium ...
Dr Ayman Batarfi, a 38-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, has been held in Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly seven years. He is one of dozens of Yemeni detainees ...
Mohamed al-Qahtani has been in Guantánamo since February 2002. For about six months from August 2002 he was held in total isolation and subjected to sleep deprivation ...
