Visitors: 167 28 March 2011, the body of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia‘s son, Juan Francisco Sicilia, and five others were found in a car in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. Media reports indicate that their bodies bore signs of torture and were accompanied by a note signed by the Gulf cartel, accusing the victims of […]
Visitors: 205 28 March 2011, the body of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia‘s son, Juan Francisco Sicilia, and five others were found in a car in Cuernavaca, south of Mexico City. Media reports indicate that their bodies bore signs of torture and were accompanied by a note signed by the Gulf cartel, accusing the victims of […]
Visitors: 157 March 31, 2011 (Moscow, March 31, 2011) – Igor Kalyapin, head of the Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture, a leading Russian human rights organization, was arbitrarily arrested by police at 6 p.m. on March 31, 2011, during a public rally in Nizhny Novgorod. About 60 protesters had gathered peacefully at Freedom Square in the […]
Visitors: 188 March 31, 2011 (Moscow, March 31, 2011) – Igor Kalyapin, head of the Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture, a leading Russian human rights organization, was arbitrarily arrested by police at 6 p.m. on March 31, 2011, during a public rally in Nizhny Novgorod. About 60 protesters had gathered peacefully at Freedom Square in the […]
Visitors: 158 March 31, 2011 (Moscow, March 31, 2011) – Igor Kalyapin, head of the Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture, a leading Russian human rights organization, was arbitrarily arrested by police at 6 p.m. on March 31, 2011, during a public rally in Nizhny Novgorod. About 60 protesters had gathered peacefully at Freedom Square in the […]
Visitors: 179 London 29.03.11: The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan condemns the 26 March 2011 abduction and beating of journalist Seymur Khaziyev. The group is deeply concerned by the cycle of violence against journalists and impunity for those who commit such attacks in Azerbaijan, and calls on the authorities to immediately and impartially investigate all […]
Visitors: 173 London 29.03.11: The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan condemns the 26 March 2011 abduction and beating of journalist Seymur Khaziyev. The group is deeply concerned by the cycle of violence against journalists and impunity for those who commit such attacks in Azerbaijan, and calls on the authorities to immediately and impartially investigate all […]
Visitors: 209 London 29.03.11: The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan condemns the 26 March 2011 abduction and beating of journalist Seymur Khaziyev. The group is deeply concerned by the cycle of violence against journalists and impunity for those who commit such attacks in Azerbaijan, and calls on the authorities to immediately and impartially investigate all […]
Visitors: 172 March 30, 2011 Metal cased antitank mines found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A man holds a disarmed metal-cased antitank mine found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A civil defense team found and disarmed 24 antivehicle mines and an estimated 30 to 40 antipersonnel mines. (Benghazi) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have […]
Visitors: 170 March 30, 2011 Metal cased antitank mines found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A man holds a disarmed metal-cased antitank mine found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A civil defense team found and disarmed 24 antivehicle mines and an estimated 30 to 40 antipersonnel mines. (Benghazi) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have […]
Visitors: 157 March 30, 2011 Metal cased antitank mines found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A man holds a disarmed metal-cased antitank mine found in Ajdabiya on March 28, 2011. A civil defense team found and disarmed 24 antivehicle mines and an estimated 30 to 40 antipersonnel mines. (Benghazi) – Muammar Gaddafi’s forces have […]
Visitors: 141 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 159 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 149 March 31, 2011 (Beirut) – The Saudi government’s refusal to let women vote in municipal elections in September 2011 unlawfully deprives women of their rights to full and equal status under the law, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on the election committee to allow women to vote and to […]
Visitors: 178 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 207 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 193 29 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee PEN of International (WiPC) is deeply concerned by the disappearance of newspaper journalist Noel López Olguín, who was last seen in Jáltipan, Veracruz state, on 8 March 2011. It is feared that he has been abducted by an armed group with links to drugs trafficking, […]
Visitors: 180 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 159 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 165 18 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is delighted to report the release from prison of independent journalist Pedro Argüelles Morán on 4 March 2011. Argüelles, who has been allowed to stay in Cuba under a special parole programme, is the last of the many writers arrested in […]
Visitors: 170 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 189 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 187 17 March 2011 The Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) of PEN International is deeply concerned about the reported re-arrest of academic and human rights activist Dr Abdul-Jalil Alsingace on 16 March 2011 after a violent crackdown on peaceful opposition protestors in the capital, Manama. Dr Alsingace recently spent nearly seven months in detention […]
Visitors: 189 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which […]
Visitors: 197 The Writers in Prison Committee of PEN International condemns the one- and- a- half year sentence handed down on 13 March 2011 to writer, journalist and activist Ali al-‘Abdullah for “harming Syria’s relations with a foreign country”. The sentence stemmed from an article published by Abdullah while in prison in 2009 in which […]