Killings by members of the police, or by clandestine groups in which former or serving members of the police are believed to be involved, continue to be reported ...
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 ...
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 ...
The lives of Adnan Ibragimov, a 54-year-old man from Chechnya in the Russian Federation, and his family are in danger after he began pursuing a criminal investigation ...