An increase in harassment, arbitrary arrests, detentions, torture or other forms of ill-treatment by security forces is anticipated ahead of April's elections.
Music journalist Behrang Tonekaboni, his mother Lily Farhadpour and his colleague Kayvan Farzin have been released on bail. They had been detained in Evin Prison ...
President Raúl Castro also called upon to allow independent monitoring of the country's human rights situation by UN experts and other human rights groups.
A Vietnamese human rights activist and Catholic priest who was temporarily allowed to leave detention yesterday should be unconditionally and permanently released ...
Father Nguyen Van Ly, who is serving an eight year jail term for spreading "propaganda" against the state in 2007, was released for a period of 12 months on humanitarian ...
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (known as Heshmat), a journalist and leader of a banned political party in Iran, is at high risk of torture in Evin prison in Iran's capital ...
Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian President to end the daily harassment of former political prisoners ahead of the country's national independence ...
Student leader Milad Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison, Tehran, since 1 December 2009. Amnesty International believes he is a prisoner of conscience ...
‘Abed al-Hafith ‘Abed al-Rahman, a 44-year-old Syrian Kurdish human rights activist, has been held incommunicado since he was detained by members of Military Intelligence ...
