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Forget Us Not Iranian women have lived under the shadow of discrimination,humiliation and suppression for the past thirty one years. With the worsening political atmosphere after the June presidential elections Iranian women and their...
- Focus Iran
- By neda
(ChineseHuman Rights Defenders- February 26, 2010) CHRDhas learned that three death row inmates are staging a hunger strike inaJiangxi prison to draw attention to their convictions, which have beenuphelddespite a lack of evidence and...
Anyone who’s kept up with every twist and turn of the Binyam Mohamed saga probably needs to get out more, but most people are now familiar with the broad thrust. A man is picked up in Pakistan during the US “war on terror”. Like scores...
Headlines Beijing Police Meet With Artists Following 2/22 Protest, Discuss Forced Evictions Shenzhen Detention Center Repeatedly Denies Visits for Xue Mingkai, Imprisoned for “Subversion” Kunming Dissident Questioned over Support for...
The death, after a prolonged hunger strike, of Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a prisoner of conscience in Cuba, has been widely reported in the media today . Orlando Zapata Tamayo was one of 55 prisoners of conscience in Cuba to have been...