Human rights lawyer JC Weliamuna and his family survived a grenade attack on their home in the capital, Colombo, on 27 September. He has since gone into hiding, ...
After almost 10 months in jail Guadalupe Llori was acquitted of all charges on 19 September. According to the terms of the acquittal, she should have been released ...
Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced ...
Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was released on 13 August after being in custody since the 25 July. He was accused of ‘distributing propaganda against ...
1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...
The 24 Uzbekistani nationals, and an Uzbekistani man now known to have been deported with them, returned to Turkey irregularly on 23 September from Iran. They had ...
Child soldiers are still being recruited to fight in the ongoing war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is also continuing physical and sexual abuse of ...
