Belarusian detainee, arrested during the flash mob ‘Revolution through social network,’ gestures from a prison cell at a detention center in Minsk, Belarus, on July 7. Sergei Grits/AP As the Belarusian government crackdown becomes increasingly aggressive, Internet-savvy protesters…
Israel trawled Facebook and Twitter to prevent pro-Palestine activists entering the country at the weekend. Authorities used the social media websites to compile a ‘black list’ of 340 protesters before asking European airlines to bar them from flights…
On Sunday, July 3, the people of Belarus celebrated the 1944 withdrawal of Nazi forces at the hands of the Red Army; the day that is considered by the government to be Independence Day. However, rather than being…
Sting has cancelled a concert in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana over claims of human rights violations on oil workers in the Central Asian country. In a statement on his website, the singer axed Monday’s planned show after Amnesty International…
This month a new flotilla is scheduled to set sail to Gaza. As will be recalled, in May 2010 a violent confrontation at sea between Israeli naval forces and pro-Palestinian activists led to the death of nine people and many…
Belarus riot police detained scores of demonstrators at a protest rally in the centre of the capital Minsk on Wednesday night, Reuters reports. The news agency reporter at the scene in the city centre said Belarusian special forces…
(New York) — Emadeddin Baghi, one of Iran’s most outspoken human rights activists, told Amnesty International Tuesday following his release from prison that his perspective on his freedom is subdued as many others remain unjustly imprisoned in Iran. When freed,…
Bahrain’s government says it has only tried a small number of those involved in recent mass protests [Reuters] Police and protesters have clashed in Bahrain after eight Shia Muslim activists accused of plotting a coup to overthrow the Gulf Arab state’s Sunni monarchy were sentenced to…
Jailed human rights defender Azimzhan Askarov © Private By Maisy Weicherding, Central Asia Researcher at Amnesty International Five years ago I was first introduced to Azimzhan Askarov, a gentle and unassuming man in his fifties, in the chaotic…
MINSK — The Belarusian opposition Youth Front has said that a jailed activist has been «tortured» in the prison where he is serving a 3 1/2 year jail term, RFE/RL’s Belarus Service reports. According to the Youth Front,…
