Chinese human rights defender Mao Hengfeng was released on 28 July, about a month before the end of her term of Re-education Through Labour (RTL), due to poor health ...
Ehsan Fattahian was hanged in connection with his alleged membership of an illegal opposition group. Two other Iranian Kurdish men also feared to be at imminent ...
Shiva Kamalipour Azad, one of the two members of the Confederation of Iranian Students (CIS) arrested on 26 April, was released on bail on 25 May 2011. Mohammad ...
More than one billion people live in slums. Governments often forcibly evict people living in slums, driving them further into poverty and into more precarious ...
By refusing to seek the repatriation of its national, Omar Khadr, from US custody in Guantánamo Bay, the Canadian government is betraying human rights principles ...
This document summarizes an Amnesty International report which looked at the violence that followed the disputed presidential election in November 2010. Hundreds ...
