After almost 10 months in jail Guadalupe Llori was acquitted of all charges on 19 September. According to the terms of the acquittal, she should have been released ...
1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...
The US military prosecutor in the case against Guantánamo detainee Mohammed Jawad has asked to resign from the office of military commissions. Lieutenant Colonel ...
An activist for indigenous people's rights, James Balao, is believed to have been subjected to enforced disappearance. He set out by car from his home in Baguio ...
On 17 September 2008, Oundo George and Kiiza Brenda, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) human rights defenders, were released after a week in police ...
Nine Azerbaijani activists have been held incommunicado since their arrest on 10 September. They are being held in solitary confinement in the Ministry of Intelligence ...
Amnesty International today called on the US government to re-issue avisa to Pakistani human rights defender Amina Masood, after an earliervisa was revoked on " ...
Dr Mehdi Zakerian, an academic, was detained on or around 15 August 2008, though the exact circumstances of his arrest are not clear. His family has been permitted ...
