A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Viet Nam. The group have been sheltering there ...
Georgi Nakani, a 21-year-old man from village of Neitrino in the Russian Federation Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus, was abducted by unidentified ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 22 nd December 2009. AI Index: MDE 18/010/2009. Lebanon: Amnesty International condemns attack on civilians. ...
Armando Mendoza Ponce, a 65-year-old male environmental campaigner in Mexico, was threatened with death and other campaigners had stones thrown at them while they ...
Prisoner of conscience Father Nguyen Van Ly was returned to prison from hospital on 11 December: he had not fully recovered from a stroke. He is partially paralysed ...
Kurdish lawyer Mustafa Ismail was detained on 12 December 2009 and has been held incommunicado since then. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
