People living on the land in Chihuahua State, northern Mexico, have been intimidated and attacked for six years. Last week, a woman was shot and injured at her ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 11 December 2009. AI Index: ASA 41/010/2009. Viet Nam: Time to release ill Catholic priest and prisoner of conscience. ...
A woman living in the Lomas del Poleo area of Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, was shot and injured on 4 December. Those living in Lomas del Poleo, particularly ...
Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and Indigenous community leaders, all received the same threatening SMS (text) message ...
Yong Vui Kong has received a stay of execution, after lawyers argued that his earlier withdrawal of an appeal was void due to his poor mental health. His appeal ...
Major Niranjan Basnet of the Nepal Army was charged by a civilian court in 2008 with the murder of a 15-year-old girl. He was recently found to be serving in a ...
Trade unionist Jorge Chen Alvarez, an official in the National Health Workers' Union, has received a death threat believed to be connected to his work improving ...
Hundreds of people are unlawfully killed by the police in Nigeria every year. Some people die because they fail to pay police officers a bribe. Others are killed ...
Hundreds of people die at the hands of the Nigeria Police Force every year. Many are unlawfully killed in the streets, at roadblocks, in police detention, and before ...