On December 13, 123 political prisoners were released in Belarus after Lukashenka met with U.S. Special Envoy to Belarus John ...

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 ...

Amnesty International announced on Wednesday that it designated four people in Cuba as prisoners of conscience. The prisoners of conscience include political dissident Félix Navarro, independent ...

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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 ...

Amnesty International on Friday welcomed Israel’s release of Palestinian humanitarian aid worker and prisoner of conscience Mohammad al-Halabi. Amnesty referred to Mohammad al-Halabi’s imprisonment as ...

In The Cell and the Soul: A Prison Memoir, Anand Teltumbde notes that incarceration does not only test the body – it also tests whether the mind will refuse to surrender. That observation sounds a ...

In 2019, construction began on a natural gas pipeline that would cut through the unceded homelands of the Wet’suwet’en Nation in western Canada. Wet’suwet’en land and water protectors were forbidden ...

Yenysel Diaz Sanchez, daughter of the Cuban prisoner of conscience Antonio Ramon Diaz Sanchez, has called for her father’s human rights to be respected and for an end to the physical and psychological ...