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 ...
Ninety-two children are among a group of 158 Lao Hmong refugees whohave been held under harsh conditions at a detention centre in Thailand for two years.
President-elect Obama’s statement in a CBS interview yesterday that he will follow through on his commitment to close the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is ...
At least 15 members of the Oromo ethnic group have been arrested in the capital Addis Ababa and also reportedly in eastern and western parts of the Oromia region ...
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 ...
On 31 October, a representative of the United Nations' Committee Against Torture (CAT) requested that Sweden does not return Terhas Mlash Abraha to Eritrea whilst ...
Seventeen Uighurs remain in indefinite military detention in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba more than a month after a federal judge ruled that their ...
