President Raúl Castro also called upon to allow independent monitoring of the country's human rights situation by UN experts and other human rights groups.
A Vietnamese human rights activist and Catholic priest who was temporarily allowed to leave detention yesterday should be unconditionally and permanently released ...
Father Nguyen Van Ly, who is serving an eight year jail term for spreading "propaganda" against the state, has been released temporarily to receive medical treatment ...
European companies are participating in the global trade in types of equipment widely used in torture or other ill-treatment, according to evidence presented in ...
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi (known as Heshmat), a journalist and leader of a banned political party in Iran, is at high risk of torture in Evin prison in Iran's capital ...
A 15-year-old girl, who is pregnant after being raped by her step-father, was denied an abortion by hospital authorities in the southern Argentinian province of ...
Amnesty International has called on the Tunisian President to end the daily harassment of former political prisoners ahead of the country's national independence ...
Student leader Milad Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison, Tehran, since 1 December 2009. Amnesty International believes he is a prisoner of conscience ...
‘Abed al-Hafith ‘Abed al-Rahman, a 44-year-old Syrian Kurdish human rights activist, has been held incommunicado since he was detained by members of Military Intelligence ...
Obtilia Eugenio Manuel, a Mexican human rights defender who leads an Indigenous People's Organisation, received a written death threat on 6 March. Her life is in ...
