Activist and prisoner of conscience Zmitser Dashkevich is being threatened with rape and torture in a penal colony in Mazyr, south-west Belarus, where he was ...
Detained Bangladeshi newspaper editor Mahmudur Rahman was hospitalised on 18 April 2013. His lawyers say he was tortured in police custody. Blogger Asif Mohiudeen ...
In this submission, Amnesty International expresses concern that Israel has rejected the International Court of Justice's opinion on the wall and withdrawn its ...
Zhu Chengzhi, a 62 year-old human rights activist, has been formally charged with 'inciting subversion of state power' after being detained on 9 June. On 18 June ...
Reginald Brooks, a 66-year-old man diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, was executed in Ohio, USA on 15 November, after nearly three decades on death row. He ...
Following two recent secret executions in India, there is fear that the Indian authorities may execute nine other prisoners whose petitions for mercy have not ...
Hardly a week goes by in Bangladesh without people being shot in Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) operations. RAB is a special police force, created to combat criminal ...
GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER JOURNALISTS KILLED WITH IMPUNITY IN SOMALIA “FOR ALL THOSE PEOPLES WHO HAVE WEPT, WHO HAVE BEENMARGINALIZED, WHO HAVE BEEN ...
