Demonstrations are being held in Brussels, Luanda, Pretoria and Paris to mark one year since the arrest of an Angolan book club’s members. Kilde: Protests mark a year since #Angola17 arrests – Index on Censorship | Index on Censorship
Addressing supporters immediately following verdict, Odeh declares, ‘There is justice in this world. We will find it.’ Palestinian activist and torture survivor Rasmea Odeh was found guilty of an immigration violation on Monday by a U.S. federal jury in Detroit,…
A Vietnamese court has jailed three activists for up to three years, a lawyer said Tuesday, after a one-day trial marked by strict security including the detention of scores of supporters. Bui Thi Minh Hang, a high-profile anti-China activist and…
An Egyptian court on Thursday sentenced 17 people to 14 years in jail each on charges including assault and occupying public buildings during protests at Cairo’s Al-Azhar University last year. The defendants, believed to be supporters of deposed Egyptian president…
This Iran protest movement poster depicts the freedom sought by women prisoners in the symbol of a butterfly that must receive human rights to fly free. Image: Payvand Feminist School: a group of women activist inside Iran celebrate the International…
The day after the court decisions were made, Attorney Mohammed al-Roken told The Associated Press the public prosecutor’s office confirmed President Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan’s pardon of the five activists as the country celebrates its national day. …
The Belarusian authorities must immediately grant a jailed former presidential candidate access to his lawyer, Amnesty International said today after it emerged he had been subjected to the latest in a series of unannounced prison transfers. One of…
The wives and fiancee of three jailed Belarusian opposition politicians say their lives are at risk, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. The three women told journalists in Minsk on November 1 that they are urging the European Union «not…
Fifteen political prisoners in Rangoon’s Insein jail have gone on hunger strike to protest a decision not to overturn a ruling that bars the majority of prisoners from the right to have their sentences reduced. The 15 are complaining…
