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Mus’ab al-Hamadi, aged 32, is a well-known media activist and member of the Local Coordination Committee (LCC) in Hama. He has been heavily involved in collating information and posting videos of abuses committed by Syrian government...

Update, 5 June After an agonising 14 week wait, Beatriz has finally had a the life-saving treatment she needed and has had a cesarean section in El Salvador. The foetus apparently was born, as predicted, with large parts of her head...

Human rights breakthroughs are like buses, you wait ages for one… We’d barely recovered from the excitement of the Arms Trade Treaty vote at the United Nations on 2 April, when on 11 April, Foreign Secretary William Hague and the 7...

Ahmed Ismael al-‘Akkad, a sixteen-year-old Syrian boy has been held in detention since 20 November 2012. He suffers from chronic Asthma and has allegedly been ill-treated and denied medical treatment. The child was arrested when the...

China Human Rights Briefing April 19-25, 2013 Contents Arbitrary Detention Wave of Detentions in Several Cities Across China Reprisals Against Activists Chinese Authorities Restrict Activists Responding to Earthquake AIDS Protest...