Six members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority are due to go on trial in Iran on 20 May. The men were detained without charge for almost a year and all were arrested in connection with their activities on behalf of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority

In similar spates of arrests, authorities have targeted members of SPLM-North and civil society activists from Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile

Amnesty International has obtained the names of more than 9,200 people reported to have died or been killed in connection with the unrest since mid-March 2011. Many of those were killed amid the protests

When former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down after weeks of mass public protest, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt

On 13 May 2012, Faisal Mohamed Salih attended a court hearing in Khartoum accompanied by his lawyer to face charges including "malicious falsehood" and "defamation" of the NISS

Saleh Al-Hamati, a Sanaa-based journalist working for Al-Siyasiyya, was threatened in the latter part of April by one of the assistants of Sanaa’s governor, who reportedly also sent soldiers to his home in his absence to intimidate his family.

Amnesty International and local human rights organizations have documented repeated violations by the IPS against hunger-striking detainees since administrative

Amnesty International is calling all parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian law and to take the necessary measures to protect civilians and combatants captured during the conflict

Other human rights defenders arrested or convicted for carrying out their legitimate work include members of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, as well as individual activists

The charges against Nabeel Rajab are nothing more than attempts to silence one of the Bahraini government's most prominent critics

Eritrea’s extremely repressive government requires all citizens under 50 to serve in the military indefinitely.

The US State Department, in its announcement that it would resume some military equipment sales to Bahrain, said it was “mindful” of “serious unresolved human rights issues” and would continue

Newspapers similarly face constant obstacles as a result of NSS interference. Editors face great pressure from NSS agents, with whom they must remain in daily contact.

Around 2,000 people nonetheless marched through the streets of Erbil calling for Halmat’s death and an attempt was made to set fire to Zagros TV, which is owned by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), one of the region’s two

Then the police ordered me to stand, marched me about 15 feet away, and ordered me to sit in a chair. Meanwhile, around a dozen police – some in green jumpsuits, others in blue riot gear – surrounded Mr. Alansari and began beating him.

If the investigator seeks to lengthen the detention for further investigation, he may do so only pursuant to a judicial order. The law clearly

After the Los Angeles Times made public the letter’s existence on July 14, the ICRC released a statement declining to confirm or deny its authenticity, as per long-standing policy to confine its communications

The next hearing is scheduled for 29 May. The judge in charge of the case requested SCM founder and president Mazen Darwish’s appearance as a witness.

Gerasa News reported yesterday that the state security court had deferred until today any decision on Muhtaseb’s possible release on bail. The court gave no explanation for the postponement

It is quite surprising that an activist is tried because of 140 characters he posted on the Internet. The absurdity of the charges against Rajab explains the that the ruling regime ambushes activists and opinion makers

Like many other journalists, Jridet believes that the government as controlled by a majority of al-Nahda party, which is of an Islamist orientation, favors some newspapers and publications at

Human Rights Watch called on the government to order security forces to stop detaining peaceful activists and aid providers. The United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria

The report also said that disputes between workers and employers would be referred to Interior Ministry tribunals, which could then refer the matter to the court.

Nabeel Rajab, who is well known for using social media site Twitter as a tool for human rights campaigning, has also been charged with using Twitter to "defame" and "humiliate

The same section of the criminal code was used in the trials of Nasreddine Ben Saida, publisher of the newspaper Attounissia who was fined 1,000 dinars for publishing a photo of a well-known football player embracing a naked model

Algeria’s law governing assemblies, enacted in 1989 during a period of political and legal liberalization, was modified by parliament in 1991, when the country was

She was released and ordered to report back on the following day. When she protested, she was told that these measures were intended to disrupt her work and to deter her from involvement in activities

Mahmud Shokraieh, a cartoonist with the weekly Nameh Amir in the central city of Arak, was notified on 3 May that he has

They were convicted of creating and running a terrorist group designed to change the constitution and system of monarchy by force, being in contact with a foreign terrorist group that acts in the interests

In the past few years, the Internet and online social networks had been conclusively established as tools for organizing protests and circulating information, and have constantly pushed back the boundaries