Amnesty International has been documenting the Saudi Arabian authorities’ extensive use of the death penalty for over a quarter of a century. This report is the ...
According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK), Negin Sheikholeslami, a human rights activist from the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested at ...
Amnesty International Public Statement on the Montreux Document on Pertinent International Legal Obligations and Good Practices for States related to the ...
Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi, who was scheduled to be executed on 9 October 2008, has had his execution postponed. Iman Hashemi was pardoned in September ...
Concerns regarding the health of possible prisoner of conscience Valeri Pal have been heightened following reports that he had a heart attack on 24 September. He ...
Nine women human rights defenders are facing legal proceedings for their involvement in the case of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl who was raped and made pregnant ...
In a landmark ruling on 7 October 2008, Judge Ricardo Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia (DC) ordered the government to release into the ...
