Prisoner of conscience Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali was released without charge on 3 October. He had been detained incommunicado for nearly three-and-a-half months, during ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. MEDIA BRIEFING. 23 rd October 2009. AI Index: MDE 30/013/2009. Tunisia: Routine muzzling of dissent mars upcoming presidential elections. ...
Amnesty International calls on the Turkish authorities to allow Turkishcitizens of Kurdish origin to return without fear of harassment anddiscrimination as refugees ...
Yemeni journalist Muhammad al-Maqalih is now believed to be detained at a prison run by the Ministry of Defence, though the authorities have continued to refuse ...
Haytham al-Maleh, who is 78, will appear before a court on 25 October. If he is tried and convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison, simply for talking about ...
Mohammad Pour Abdollah, a male student arrested in February in Iran’s capital, Tehran, is now on trial, apparently on charges related to national security for his ...
With the implementation of the Employment Permit System (EPS) in August 2004, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) became one of the first Asian countries to legally ...
Juan Juan Almeida, the son of a former leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution, has been refused permission to leave the country after he criticized the authorities ...
