Tag: human rights

Lawyers face up to five years in jail on charges of links to Navalny’s groups, which the Kremlin deems ‘extremist’.A ...

The free-speech advocate was among several activists detained ahead of President Nicolas Maduro’s swearing-in last week.Authorities in Venezuela have released ...

Washington, DC – The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, turns 23 on Saturday. For Mansoor Adayfi, a former inmate at ...

Bogota, Colombia – Jesus Medina Ezaine had already spent 16 months in a Venezuelan military prison, accused of crimes he ...

In South Korea, as well, historians say that Carter adopted the messaging of a military government facing human rights criticism. ...

Edmundo Gonzalez, who competed against incumbent Nicolas Maduro in July’s presidential elections, says masked men abducted his son-in-law in Caracas.Edmundo ...

Amnesty International welcomed the transfer but said Guantanamo would remain a ‘glaring, longstanding stain’ on human rights in the US.The ...

Al-Qaradawi’s family seeks Lebanese PM’s intervention to prevent his deportation to Egypt, fearing risks to his life.The family of Egyptian ...

Beirut, Lebanon – The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) ban on Al Jazeera is part of a broader attempt to silence criticism ...

Khijou and Samar al-Khateeb were tortured in Bashar al-Assad's prisons and lost family to the system. Source link

Egyptian activist Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was held due to an Egyptian arrest warrant, a Lebanese official said.A group of lawyers ...

Human rights panel calls on Venezuelan government to respect civil liberties as beginning of presidential term nears.The government of Venezuelan ...

A judge has ordered 16 military members to remain behind bars while a probe into the deaths continues.Ecuador’s attorney general ...

Palestinians in Gaza are entering the new year as defenceless and beleaguered as the last. Israel’s war on the enclave ...

Transfer of Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi from the US army prison in Cuba is the fourth in two weeks by ...

Beirut, Lebanon – On December 9, an army air attack hit a fuel station in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, killing at ...

For Gaza’s women, the hardships of life in the territory’s sprawling tent camps are compounded by the daily humiliation of ...

Chadians are voting in parliamentary, regional and municipal elections for the first time in more than a decade, continuing the ...

Israeli soldiers have stormed, raided and burned down Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, forcing everyone inside to evacuate and ...

Skeletal remains discovered in Mexican border state of Chihuhua taken to lab for possible identification, officials say.Authorities in Mexico have ...