From the onset of the five-day war between Georgia and Russia in the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 the conflicting parties failed to ...
Ebrahim Mehrnehad, a member of the Baluchi minority in Iran, has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, two of them suspended. Fazlorahman Jahras, Abdollah ...
Women’s human rights defender Patricia Orozco has received death threats and threats of sexual violence by phone and text (SMS) message, in an apparent attempt ...
On 17 April, five members of Me’ phaa Indigenous People’s Organization (OPIM) were detained and charged with the murder of Alejandro Feliciano García on 1 January ...
Prisoner of conscience, Abbas Lisani, who is a prominent activist for the rights of the Iranian Azerbaijani minority, was released from Yazd Prison in central Iran ...
Fourteen dissidents are sentenced to 65 years' imprisonment each, as Myanmar's military government ignores calls bythe international community to clean up its human ...
