AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. Index AI: MDE 30/015/2009. 4 November 2009. Human rights activist facing trial for denouncing pollution in Tunisia. ...
Maziar Bahari and Mohammad Ghouchani were released on bail on 17 and 29 October respectively. At least three other journalists are still detained in Evin prison ...
Dr Mohammad Maleki has been held incommunicado since his arrest in August. Amnesty International has expressed grave concern for his health as he is suffering from ...
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 ...