Highlights First Conviction of “Jasmine Revolution” Detainee: After a quick hearing, Sichuan-based rights activist Li Shuangde ( 李双德 ) was sentenced on June 1 to four months and fined 20,000 RMB for “credit card fraud” by the Jinjiang...

NoJustice for Past Atrocities, No Guarantee of HumanRights (Chinese Human RightsDefenders, June 2, 2011) – As the world watches andreacts to the events of the Arab Spring unfoldingacross the Middle East and North Africa...

You might have missed the remarks made by an Egyptian general to CNN this week. He was talking about the army's treatment of a group of women who had formed part of a protest in Tahrir Square on 9 March. The general, who apparently...

COMPETITIVE SALARY, MUST BE AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE START, EXPERIENCE NECESSARY It’s rare that the executioner is the one on the wanted list , but in India this week there is a hunt on. The perversity of advertising such a post, really...

Jamal Abdul-Jabbar is the President of the Kirkuk Oil and Gas Workers Union in northern Iraq. Recently, he led his members out on strike for safer working conditions, and more rights for contract workers. Now his employers, the state...