Yousef Dheeb al-Hmoud was arrested at his home on 15 November. The authorities have not revealed where he is being held, why he was arrested or whether he will ...
A federal court has lifted the stay of execution in the case of Kenneth Biros, who is now due to be put to death in Ohio on 8 December under the state’s new lethal ...
Yousef Dheeb al-Hmoud, a male Syrian political activist, is being held incommunicado at an unknown location. He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
Most of the people living in poverty in the world are women. Discrimination is a key driver of poverty. In some countries discrimination against women is built ...
Zhuang Lu, a 27-year-old woman who worked for the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese), a legal aid and research organization, is now ...
Aleksei Sokolov, a male human rights defender, is unlawfully detained in the city of Yekaterinburg, near the Ural Mountains in Russia. The court order to keep him ...
In October, the Myanmar authorities arrested at least 10 politicalactivists and journalists for trying to help survivors of Cyclone Nargis. Their whereabouts is ...
Imprisoned pro-democracy activist and Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly suffered a suspected stroke on 14 November in Viet Nam. He is conscious but paralyzed ...
