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May 14 2014 5:12PM
Children's rights defender in Honduras beaten, detained

The Director of Casa Alianza Honduras, a children’s rights organization, was beaten and detained by military police on 8 May. He believes his mistreatment was in retaliation for speaking out against violence against children in...

May 13 2014 5:49PM
30 years of broken promises: it's time to stop torture

Join our live Q&A and ask our experts your questions Electric shocks to the genitals. Cigarette burns. Being punched and beaten. Deprived of food and water. Your family threatened with the same if you don’t confess. Despite a global...

May 13 2014 7:55AM
Stop Torture Campaign: Moses's Story

Do you remember being 16 and finishing your secondary school exams? Do you remember waiting for your results, looking to the future, eagerly wondering what life would hold for you? What if the answer was torture, imprisonment and a...

May 12 2014 10:25PM
1989 Participant's Profile: Wang Weiping (王卫萍)

Wang Weiping (王卫萍), Doctor of the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Beijing People's Hospital; graduate of the Beijing Medical University. On the night of June 3, 1989, Wang was shot in the neck while trying to attend to the...

May 12 2014 10:18PM
Today in 1989: Hunger Strike in Tiananmen

Thousands of students march to the Tiananmen wich hundreds sworn to go to hunger strike for democracy.