Texas carried out its 23rd execution of the year on 19 November 2009 – out of a national total of 48 – after Governor Rick Perry rejected a rare recommendation ...
Amnesty International condemns the failure of Egypt's military appealscourt to overturn sentences imposed on leading members of the bannedMuslim Brotherhood organization ...
The US government must redouble efforts to resolve the future of detainees still held at the military facility in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International said ...
Sexual violence against women and girls is pervasive and widespread in Haiti: much of it is directed at girls. There were estimated to be more than 100000 girls ...
Student activist Mohammed Soudani was sentenced following an unfair trial on 24 October, to four months’ imprisonment. He was arrested on 22 October after meeting ...
