Pretoria – The North Gauteng High Court ruled that Ahmed Timol was pushed from the 10th floor of the John Vorster police station. An inquest was held in 1972 and the magistrate court in Johannesburg found that […]
Survivors of torture have won a legal challenge against Home Office rules on asylum seeker detention in the UK. The government had argued torture could only be carried out by official state agents or terror […]
Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong has been jailed for six months for taking part in the 2014 pro-democracy protests. He was tried and found guilty of unlawful assembly last year, and sentenced to community service. […]
JEREMY Corbyn has said he takes “very seriously” UN allegations of human rights violations by security forces and pro-government armed groups in Venezuela, but again declined to directly condemn president Nicolas Maduro. The Labour leader […]
A semi-official Iranian news agency is reporting that Alireza Tajiki, a young Iranian man who was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death as a child, has been executed. Following today’s execution of Alireza Tajiki, Amnesty […]
The seizure of two opposition leaders in Caracas late last night is a telling sign that the Maduro administration is desperate to silence all forms of criticism as the political and humanitarian crisis in the […]
By Selin Girit Seventeen journalists and managers at Turkish opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet were facing trial on Monday on charges of aiding a terrorist organisation. If found guilty this week, they could face sentences of up […]
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have been “brutally tortured” by security forces in Cameroon, a rights group says. Amnesty International said in a report that the suspects, including women and children, were beaten, water-boarded and forced […]
STRASBOURG (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Thursday that online videos considered by a Belgian court to be Islamist hate speech were not protected under free speech provisions. Fouad Belkacem is a […]
Turkish police have detained 10 people, including the local director of Amnesty International and other rights activists, on suspicion of membership in a terrorist organisation, Amnesty said yesterday (6 July) in what it called a […]
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