A female Mexican human rights defender, who is an outspoken critic of human rights violations by the army, was harassed by soldiers in her home in Culiacán, Sinaloa ...
In this open letter Amnesty International urges Commonwealth Heads of Government to raise concerns regarding the human rights situation in Sri Lanka with their ...
Four men on trial for an attack on human rights lawyer Ricardo Lagunes Gasca, and other inhabitants of Ejido Jotolá, southern Mexico, in September 2009, have been ...
Student activist Mohammed Soudani was sentenced following an unfair trial on 24 October, to four months’ imprisonment. He was arrested on 22 October after meeting ...
Zhao Lianhai, father of a boy rendered ill by a batch of contaminated milk powder in China in 2008, has been campaigning for justice for other affected families ...
Two male Azerbaijani youth activists and bloggers Emin Abdullayev (aged 30) and Adnan Hajizade (aged 26) have been sentenced to two and a half years and two years ...
Luis Galdámez, a male journalist freelancing for an independent radio station in Honduras, has been receiving death threats as a result of his broadcasting work ...