The State of Ohio has announced new lethal injection procedures and is looking to resume executions. It is seeking to execute Kenneth Biros on 8 December 2009. ...
Zarema Gaisanova, a 39-year-old Chechen woman, was abducted on 31 October 2009 in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in the Russian Federation's North Caucasus region ...
Male teacher Rolindo Vera, a member of the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous group, went missing on 30 October after a violent eviction carried out by armed men in Mato ...
A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for ...
The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of “enmity against God” over his alleged membership of a proscribed ...
The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of SherkoMoarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of "enmity against God" over hisalleged membership of a proscribed ...
Dhaka on 25 February 2009 brought fears of an emerging BDR coup and a possible violent counter-offensive by the army. The mutineers killed at least 74 people, including ...
Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian, a male member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, was executed in the province of Kordestan, northwestern Iran, early on 11 November.
On 6 November, male environmentalist Andrei Zatoka was released after he paid a fine of 1000 Manat (about US$350). Eight days earlier, on 29 October, he had been ...
Musician and activist Igor Koktysh has been detained for over two years for the peaceful expression of his beliefs. If forcibly returned to Belarus, he could face ...
