One year on, no one has been held accountable for the war crimes and other grave violations of international law reported by a UN Fact Finding Mission.
A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Viet Nam. The group have been sheltering there ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: MDE 13/133/2009. Date 23 December 2009. Iran: Iran must allow peaceful gatherings during ‘Ashoura. ...
Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been charged with attempting to overthrow the state. For this, he could face the death penalty. Two others are facing the same ...
At least five people, including human rights activists, have been arrested in Iran while on their way to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 22 nd December 2009. AI Index: MDE 18/010/2009. Lebanon: Amnesty International condemns attack on civilians. ...
Prisoner of conscience Father Nguyen Van Ly was returned to prison from hospital on 11 December: he had not fully recovered from a stroke. He is partially paralysed ...
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 ...