Aminatou Haidar has been on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since 15 November, after Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport and expelled her from the ...
During the widespread unrest that followed the contested election result in June 2009, thousands of people were arbitrarily arrested, dozens were killed on the ...
New report details abuse before, during and afterthe June election, when authorities deployed the Basij militia andRevolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests ...
Human rights violations in Iran are now as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, Amnesty International said today in a new report on the aftermath of last June ...
Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and Indigenous community leaders, all received the same threatening SMS (text) message ...
Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, has been sentenced to six years, three months and one day’s imprisonment for charges related to her peaceful exercise of ...
An outspoken critic of the human rights record of Libya, Jamal al-Hajji, was arrested on 9 December 2009 and apparently transferred to prison. Amnesty International ...
Two women, Mehrnoush Etemadi and Hayedeh Tabesh, both members of the Campaign for Equality (also known as the One Million Signatures Campaign) have been arrested ...
