Luis Galdámez, a male journalist freelancing for an independent radio station in Honduras, has been receiving death threats as a result of his broadcasting work ...
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 US administration’s announcement that it will transfer five detainees from Guantánamo to the US mainland to face trial in federal court, a decision that is ...
Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev, a 32-year-old Russian man of Ingush ethnicity, has been detained incommunicado in Egypt since 10 November 2009. He is believed to ...
The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of SherkoMoarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of "enmity against God" over hisalleged membership of a proscribed ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...