(London November 15, 2009) –The Obama administration should revise its detention policies in Afghanistan to make them consistent with international law, Amnesty ...
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 ...
Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, a 75-year-old Syrian woman, along with two younger Saudi Arabian men known only as Fahad, aged 24, and Hadyan, have had their sentences ...
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 ...
John Allen Muhammad was executed in Virginia on the evening of 10 November. He had been convicted in 2003 of capital murder in relation to a series of shootings ...