A court has found in favour of a Jehovah's Witness in Armenia who received a prison sentence for refusing to do military service.

A Dutch court ruling holds peacekeeping troops to account for the deaths of three men in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.

Belarusian authorities are using violence and administrative sentences to punish peaceful protesters.

Riot police in Athens have injured many peaceful protesters by using excessive force to disperse demonstrations over the past two days.

Greek police have reportedly used excessive amounts of teargas against protesters in a largely peaceful demonstration against government spending cuts.

Serbian authorities must renew their efforts to arrest all war crimes suspects, Amnesty International said today, after Ratko Mladic was detained.

Georgian authorities must investigate allegations of excessive use of force by police against anti-government protests in which two people died, Amnesty International said today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev's convictions on money laundering have been upheld by a Moscow court.

Four Belarusian prisoners of conscience have been convicted over their involvement in post-election protests.