HAVANA (AP) – Amnesty International designated a sixth Cuban dissident jailed in the island nation as a “prisoner of conscience” Wednesday and called for his immediate and unconditional release. Ivan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. File. Protesters hold a banner and placards as they await the arrival of China's premier Li Qiang at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia ...

Four years after their arrest for peacefully advocating for political reform, two members of the Eswatini Parliament, Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube, have been declared “prisoners of conscience” by ...

The National Executive Committee of the African Democratic Congress has called for the immediate release of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, describing him as a “prisoner of ...

The National Executive Committee, NEC, of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, has declared former Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, a prisoner of conscience and called for his immediate release ...

Mark Oakley, Dean of Southwark. Good morning. On this day 65 years ago, a British barrister, Peter Benenson, wrote an article in the Observer newspaper called ‘The Forgotten Prisoners’. In it he ...

GCHR reports that Ali Abdullah Al Khaja died after years of arbitrary detention, isolation from family, and imprisonment past his sentence, urging an independent investigation and the release of all ...

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has demanded the immediate release of former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, describing him as a “prisoner of conscience.”The party made the call on ...

Ingabire Day, a day of solidarity and support for Madame Victoire Ingabire and other prisoners of conscience in Rwanda, was celebrated in October to commemorate her October 2010 arrest. Rwanda has one ...

Amnesty International considers Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, who prevented the derailment of the election result in 2023, to be prisoners of conscience ...

Detainees in Jau Prison and Dry Dock remain confined in overcrowded facilities near strike sites, unable to seek shelter, as calls grow to release political prisoners and vulnerable detainees. This ...

China arbitrarily detained thousands and convicted 1,545 “prisoners of conscience” in the last six years in what could constitute "crimes against humanity", a rights group alleged. The prisoners were ...