Viet Nam: Two days after Tran Quoc Hien was chosen as spokesperson for the United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) in January 2007, he was arrested.
China: Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for a US-based NGO is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour in Beijing due to his religious beliefs.
Honduras: An award-winning journalist and her colleagues face a campaign of harassment and intimidation after investigating several private security firms for labour rights violations.
Russia: 22-year-old Artur Akhmatkhanov was grabbed by masked
soldiers and bundled into an armoured personnel carrier in 2003; he has not
been seen since.
For decades, human rights violations in Myanmar have been widespread and systematic – most senior opposition figures are imprisoned or detained, amongst more than 1,150 political prisoners held in deteriorating prison conditions.
Pakistan: One of the key targets under attack in the state of emergency,
imposed by President Musharraf, has been the country’s
increasingly active judiciary.
