Amnesty International urged Taiwan’s High Court to ensure a fair trial for a death row inmate preparing to face his 11th retrial in 21 years on Tuesday.
Dolkun Isa is being held by the South Korean authorities. If he is deported to China he would
be at risk of arbitrary detention, unfair trial, torture and other ill-treatment
and possibly the death penalty.
The USA must grant all detainees held in US custody at the Bagram
airbase in Afghanistan access to US courts and legal counsel, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty International's new report shows how Spain has one of the strictest
detention regimes in Europe, which is in breach of the country's
obligations under international human rights law.
Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi
Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights
in the name of countering terrorism.
Victims of rape and other torture by Iranian security forces are facing
renewed risk after documents detailing abuses against them were
confiscated this week.
The six had been sentenced on 6 August to a mandatory sentence of two
years’ imprisonment and fined 250,000 Dalasis (US$10,000) for defamation and sedition.
