Konstantina Kuneva, a Bulgarian migrant worker and trade union leader, was severely injured in a sulphuric acid attack by unknown men. She lost her sight in one ...
Human rights defender Rita Mahato has been threatened with death, rape and kidnapping as a result of her work helping women in Nepal who have suffered acts of violence ...
Yong Vui Kong received a stay of execution on 3 December 2009, but is now scheduled for execution on 11 December. His appeal will be heard by the Court of Appeals ...
The prisoners, who include 17 women, are said to have had their deathsentences ratified by the Presidential Council, the final step beforeexecutions are carried ...
Aakash Mallah, Vice Chairman of the Sindh nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), and JSQM activist Noor Mohammad Khaskheli, were abducted on 30 October ...
Bobby Wayne Woods was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 3 December. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl in ...
