All three are reported to have been beaten and otherwise ill-treated while in detention. Two have already been detained for four years.

The International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, discusses the ICC's work in the wake of the court's decision to issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's Pr

The jury in the Anna Politkovskaya murder trial has acquitted all those charged with involvement in the murder.

Over 1,600 migrants currently held on the Italian island of Lampedusa are at risk of being forcibly returned to their home countries.

The Turkish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender solidarity organization, Lambda Istanbul, has won its appeal against the closure of the association.

A prominent human rights lawyer with whom Amnesty International had worked on several occasions was shot dead in the centre of Moscow on Monday.

Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a second resolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at the United Nations on T

The European Parliament has honoured a jailed Chinese dissident in absentia with its top human rights award.

Eyewitness statements present mounting evidence of police beating and ill-treating peaceful participants of anti-government demonstrations.