Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, two Iranian female converts to Christianity, were released from Evin Prison on 18 November 2009. Both have ...
Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western ...
The trial of five men accused of belonging to an unauthorized political party resumes at the Supreme State Security Court this week. The court does not operate ...
Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Democratic Society Party has been closed and 37 of its members have been banned from politics for five years ...
According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior has ordered that sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a 75 ...
Amnesty International has received consistent reports of police committing a series of human rights violations including torture, ill-treatment and at times unlawful ...
A court has rejected Alexei Sokolov’s appeal and extended his pre-trial detention until 25 December 2009. He appears to have been detained solely for his peaceful ...
Journalist Ma’an ‘Aqel was arrested on 22 November in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He is now held incommunicado, putting him at risk of torture and other ill-treatment ...
