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Cuban dissident Nestor RodrÃguez Lobaina and his co-defendant must be granted full judicial guarantees, including access to a lawyer of their choice, Amnesty International said today on the eve of...
In a report published today, Amnesty International is making recommendations for the establishment of a judicial mechanism under the auspices of the UN to try those alleged to have been responsible...
In a new report entitled Worlds Apart, the organisation details the cases of 10 European citizens on death row in the USA. European countries whose nationals are currently on death row include Estonia...
Miroslav Filipovic was arrested on 8 May in Kraljevo, southern Serbia, and faces charges of espionage and disseminating false information. He is being tried in a military court, and the prosecution...
Mohamed Omar Haji, 27, was arrested several times in January of this year. Police allegedly beat and threatened to kill him in order to force him to recant during interrogation at the al-Tawahi police...
Shan civilians have suffered the consequences of internal armed conflict for over four years, when the army of Burma began a massive forcible relocation program as part of their counter-insurgency...
Three of the six men, executed in Abha, Asir Province on 11 July, were named as 'Attiya bin Obeid 'Attiya, Rajih bin Ibrahim 'Issa and Rajihi bin Hamad bin Ali, all Saudi nationals. The others, Yemeni...
Though Liu Guangyuan is officially recorded as aged 18, his mother has claimed that she had previously inflated his age in order to gain a grant of land and that he is in fact 17 and therefore too...
'Egypt's international obligations require it to respect the rights of detainees which include to be informed promptly and in detail of the charges against them', the organisations said today. 'The...
Since May this year, when the long-standing crisis in Sierra Leone captured the world's attention, governments and the industry have announced a series of measures which aim to prevent so-called...