Amnesty International today accused the Mauritanian government of routine and systematic torture, saying that the security apparatus has adopted torture as the ...
The country's security forces have adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression, according to a new Amnesty International report.
Jahangir Alam Akash, journalist and head of two local human rights organizations, was detained for more than a month in October 2007 and tortured by the Rapid Action ...
Journalists in Croatia are being violently targeted for trying toexpose the truth about war crimes and corruption, while the country'sleaders fail to protect them ...
The Croatian authorities’ failure to address threats against journalists has led to a climate of intimidation, where the journalists work at a great risk to their ...
Rita Mahato is a 30-year-old health counsellor with the Women’s Rehabilitation Centre (WOREC) in Nepal. In June 2007 she was threatened with rape and death when ...