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 ...
Army Major Niranjan Basnet has not been arrested on his return to Nepal. Despite instructions from the Prime Minister that he be arrested, military police escorted ...
According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior has ordered that sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a 75 ...
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 ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 11 December 2009. AI Index: ASA 41/010/2009. Viet Nam: Time to release ill Catholic priest and prisoner of conscience. ...
In this petition, to be sent to the Chairman of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the signatories express their concern that Chinese government policies in 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 ...
A woman living in the Lomas del Poleo area of Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, was shot and injured on 4 December. Those living in Lomas del Poleo, particularly ...
Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and Indigenous community leaders, all received the same threatening SMS (text) message ...
