Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western ...
The trial of five men accused of belonging to an unauthorized political party resumes at the Supreme State Security Court this week. The court does not operate ...
According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior has ordered that sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a 75 ...
Amnesty International has received consistent reports of police committing a series of human rights violations including torture, ill-treatment and at times unlawful ...
A court has rejected Alexei Sokolov’s appeal and extended his pre-trial detention until 25 December 2009. He appears to have been detained solely for his peaceful ...
Journalist Ma’an ‘Aqel was arrested on 22 November in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He is now held incommunicado, putting him at risk of torture and other ill-treatment ...
On 10 December, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Belarusian citizen Igor Koktysh, a male social activist, supporter of the Belarusian opposition and ...
