During the widespread unrest that followed the contested election result in June 2009, thousands of people were arbitrarily arrested, dozens were killed on the ...
New report details abuse before, during and afterthe June election, when authorities deployed the Basij militia andRevolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests ...
This paper examines the various shortcomings of the Venezuelan legal system in regards to universal jurisdiction. Areas covered include universal criminal jurisdiction ...
Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, has been sentenced to six years, three months and one day’s imprisonment for charges related to her peaceful exercise of ...
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 ...
An outspoken critic of the human rights record of Libya, Jamal al-Hajji, was arrested on 9 December 2009 and apparently transferred to prison. Amnesty International ...
Two women, Mehrnoush Etemadi and Hayedeh Tabesh, both members of the Campaign for Equality (also known as the One Million Signatures Campaign) have been arrested ...
