News & Updates

South Korea must release activist charged over Kim Jong-il tweet

1 February 2012

A South Korean activist faces up to seven years in prison after re-tweeting messages from North Korea's official Twitter account.

Guantánamo: A decade of damage to human rights

11 January 2012

A new report highlights why the detention centre continues to represent an attack on human rights.

Torture and rendition: Guantánamo case profiles

9 January 2012

Romania must come clean over secret prisons

9 December 2011

The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centres on its territory after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German newspaper.

Saudi Arabia: Protesters and reformists targeted in name of security

1 December 2011

Saudi Arabian authorities have been using the fight against terrorism as a pretext to crack down on dissent.

Denmark: Review of US rendition flights over Greenland “toothless”

8 November 2011

Denmark's independent review of CIA rendition flights will not be allowed to compel witness testimony or request any new information.

Finland must further investigate USA rendition flights

1 November 2011

A number of planes linked to the CIA’s rendition programme landed in Finland between 2001 and 2006.

Afghanistan: Regional cooperation urged to defend rights

1 November 2011

Officials gathered at an Istanbul conference on Afghanistan must keep human rights a central focus of their plans for regional security.

Rendition victim takes case against Lithuania to European Court

27 October 2011

Lithuania's failure to investigate its role in the US-led rendition programme has forced an alleged victim of secret detention to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.

Lithuania blocking the truth about CIA Secret Prisons

21 October 2011

The Lithuanian authorities have yet to investigate a significant amount of information linked to CIA secret prisons in the country.