Tunisian Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, in jail on politically motivated charges, is in urgent need of specialist medical care, without which his life may be in danger ...
Amnesty International has called for the release of an Iranian studentleader whose arrest and detention have inspired men to cover their hairin an online solidarity ...
Student leader Majid Tavakkoli was arrested on 7 December 2009 after a demonstration. His whereabouts are unknown and he is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment ...
Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, two Iranian female converts to Christianity, were released from Evin Prison on 18 November 2009. Both have ...
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 ...
The Saudi Arabian authorities must not carry out the imminent flogging and imprisonment of an elderly woman and two younger men, Amnesty International said today ...
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 ...
On 10 December, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Belarusian citizen Igor Koktysh, a male social activist, supporter of the Belarusian opposition and ...
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. ...
