The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) holds that “everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression...to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds.”

It also reminds that dozens of police officers, who are accused of killing hundreds of Egyptians during the last months of January and February, are still at large, and does not rule out that many

The government of Iran is criticized both for restrictions and punishments that follow the Islamic Republic's constitution and law, and for actions that do not, such as the torture, rape, and killing of political prisoners, and the beatings and killings of dissidents and other civilians.[2]

The Myanmar resolution welcomed recent talks between democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military-dominated government, the release of some political prisoners and other changes over the past year.

On November 21, 2011, Rojin Mohammadi was summoned by phone to Shahid Moghadasi Court in Evin Prison, and her personal

The government also said that it was prosecuting 20 cases against security officers, without giving any further details, and would set up a special fund to compensate victims of the clashes between security forces and protesters.

In the last few months however some family members and some state media have been allowed to attend court sessions

The right to freely choose and campaign for one’s representatives in government includes the right not to vote

The commission called for the government to investigate the complaints of torture and other abuses and for accountability for those who “committed unlawful or negligent acts” that have resulted in the “deaths,

This is the second time that Etemad has been suspended in the past 20 months. Previously suspended on 1 March 2010 on the orders of the Press Licensing and Surveillance Commission, an offshoot of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance

Sarhan Sanara of the government daily Al-Akhbar was arrested while covering a demonstration and was held for seven hours, during which he was mistreated and beaten several times by police officers.

This is the latest episode in which CSF and military police have broken up peaceful protests.

The raid at Iran’s offices followed a ruling by a Tehran criminal court on November 20 sentencing Javenfekr to one year in prison and banning him from working for the news media for three years

They still occupy their positions in the Interior Ministry and practice threats against the victims of the

Where is it? Contrary to what was always claimed, the case against them is based on their work as journalists

Charges against these labor activists included organizing opposition groups, acting against national security and propaganda against the regime.

As recently as last Saturday, a 16-year-old boy was killed after being run over by a police vehicle during a demonstration. Bahraini authorities say the vehicle skidded on an oil slick laid by anti-government protesters

When Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty met SCAF representatives in June, he had urged them to scrap the 1981 Emergency Law which unfairly restricted a number of fundamental rights

Analysts say that Khamenei prefers to keep Ahmadinejad in place rather that allow his rivals to unseat him and jeopardise stability at a time of economic difficulties

Lina Ibrahim, journalist of Tishreen newspaper, disappeared early this month after she had been seen on her way out of her house. Her whereabouts remain unknown until now.

The Alaei brothers now plan to continue that work outside Iran. They’re hoping to set up an interdisciplinary centre for health and human rights at the State University of New York at Albany, where they both now work.

The resolution requires the Libyan authorities to cooperate with any ICC investigation into serious crimes committed in Libya, including by surrendering ICC suspects.

Abdolfattah Soltani’s temporary detention order was extended for a further two months on 17 November 2011; he is awaiting trial on charges of “propaganda against the system”,

Isra Salhab, 26, the presenter of a programme about Palestinian prisoners on the satellite TV station Al-Quds, was summoned for questioning and arrested by the Israeli police in Jerusalem on 16 November

16 year old Ali Yousif AlSatrawi was run over last night by Bahrain security forces at Juffair and died at the scene.

The brothers - now free and recently reunited - said the news of the campaign by Amnesty International and others gave them hope.

ANHRI stresses the need to try all false witnesses, along with those who stand behind them and support them, no matter who they are

These sentences were issued and carried out in the last two years and statistics show that the implementation of these sentences has raised Khuzestan’s place

Little is known about the circumstances of her disappearance but it is suspected that she was kidnapped by the security forces. Information obtained by Reporters Without Borders indicates she was taken to a detention centre.

The recipients included Navanethem Pillay (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights), Frank La Rue (United Nations Human Rights Council special