A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Viet Nam. The group have been sheltering there ...
British national Akmal Shaikh has exhausted all his appeals against his drug-smuggling conviction. According to the UK Foreign Office, he is scheduled to be executed ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: MDE 13/133/2009. Date 23 December 2009. Iran: Iran must allow peaceful gatherings during ‘Ashoura. ...
Richard Blanco, a male local government official from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is being detained in a prison in Caracas without any evidence of him having ...
Georgi Nakani, a 21-year-old man from village of Neitrino in the Russian Federation Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus, was abducted by unidentified ...
Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been charged with attempting to overthrow the state. For this, he could face the death penalty. Two others are facing the same ...
At least five people, including human rights activists, have been arrested in Iran while on their way to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri ...
