Andrei Zatoka, a 53-year-old male environmentalist, was arrested by police in his home town of Dashoguz, northern Turkmenistan, on 20 October. He is believed to ...
Dr Mohammad Maleki, a 76-year old Iranian scholar and former Chancellor of Tehran University, has been incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison for 40 days. He is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iranian-American academic Kian Tajbakhsh has been sentenced to 15 years in prison bythe Revolutionary Court in Tehran, for his alleged part in the protests following ...
The inhabitants of a village in southern Mexico have been attacked repeatedly by a group of armed men, who have now chased away the police officers who were meant ...
A 78-year-old male human rights lawyer has been held incommunicado since his arrest by Syrian Political Security personnel on 14 October in Syria’s capital, Damascus ...
Male environmentalist Jesús Sánchez de la Barquera has been shot and wounded outside his home in Mexico State, near the Mexican capital, Mexico City. He had been ...