Amnesty International today urged the UN Security Council to take firm and decisive action to address the increasingly grave situation in the Gaza Strip and southern ...
The Iranian authorities have forced the closure of the Centre for theDefence of Human Rights (CDHR) in Tehran, co-founded by2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi ...
Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, both doctors specializing in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, have been charged with “cooperating” with an ...
Tibetan former monk Nami Jhaba was detained by police on 19 April 2008, and has been held incommunicado since then. Police recently returned some of his possessions ...
Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand is believed to have suffered a heart attack on 17 December 2008. He was taken to the medical facility in Evin Prison, but no doctor was ...
Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a secondresolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at theUnited Nations on Thursday ...
Joseph Guyler Delva has been receiving death threats which he believes to be related to both his involvement in an investigation into the murder of Haitian journalist ...
This report focuses on violations of human rights and humanitarian law that took place in N’Djaména. Armed opposition groups were in the city during the two days ...
