China Human Rights Briefing August 15 – 21, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Former Tibetan Prisoner Smuggles Out List of 45 Individuals Detained Around 2008 Unrest Freedom of Religion Lawyers Call for Investigation Into Violent...

After a harrowing escape, first from their hometown of Qahtanya and then from Sinjar Mountain – where they were stuck for eight days with very little food or water – Suleiman Shaibo Sido, his wife and their eight children, all members...

With tensions high in Israel, this is a particularly difficult time to be a conscientious objector in a country where military service is compulsory for almost all of its young men and women. Omar Saad, a Druze viola player from...

China Human Rights Briefing August 8-14, 2014 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment & Punishment Details of Torture Emerge from Behind Communist Party’s Extralegal Discipline System Legal Rights Beijing...

On Saturday I listened while survivors of the Gatumba massacre recounted the horrors they witnessed on the night of August 13th 2004, when more than 160 Congolese Banyamulenge Tutsis were hunted down and killed at a refugee camp in...