AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: MDE 13/026/2006 (Public). News Service No: 066. 16 March 2006. Iran: Human rights defenders in the front line ...
Dr 'Ammar Qurabi, spokesperson for the Arab Organization for Human Rights - Syria (AOHR-S), was released on 15 March. According to reports, he was released from ...
Six Iranian Arab men (Ali Bouazar, Kamal Nawaseri, Afnan Yousuf Azizi Bani Toruf, Salahuddin Hilali Majd Sawari, Ahmad Assadi, Jaber Obeyat), were arrested in the ...
Dzhumadurdy Ovezov and Meretmuhammet Khommadov, journalists, aged 54, from the Mary region of southeastern Turkmenistan, have been held incommunicado since their ...
Human rights defender Dr 'Ammar Qurabi was arrested on 12 March, on arrival at Damascus airport. He was reportedly arrested by Military Intelligence officers, and ...
Eight men and one boy aged 17 are being tried on charges of practising homosexuality, which is a criminal offence under Section 347a of the Cameroonian Penal Code ...
A further three young men have been arrested, apparently for involvement in pro-democracy activities. Maher Ibrahim, Ayham Saqr and 'Alam Fakhour have been ...
Human rights activist Saidzhakhon Zainabitdinov has been reportedly sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in Uzbekistan after a secret trial held in early January ...