District attorney of Arequipa has demanded up to 30 years in jail for all the leaders who opposed the Tía María mining project and led the resistance struggle against it

The protests were organised to demand the protection of human rights in the country and an improvement in the economic conditions of the people. Protesters also called on the government to release all political prisoners and work towards greater social equality and initiate democratic reforms in the Moroccon political system

The massacre of Colombia’s social, peasant and Indigenous leaders continues unabated

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele threatened to invoke Article 87 which allows for a ‘right to insurrection’ if legislators did not accept his demand for a special session of the assembly to approve a loan of USD 109 million

Jorge Mora, a football fan and a social activist, was run over by a national police truck outside a football stadium in Santiago

Jalila Haider was detained by the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency at the Lahore airport on January 20 for alleged anti-state activism and she was barred from traveling outside the country

He has been accused of defamation, slander and injury by the son of an army general from the era of the military dictatorship

Daniel Pascual, who is appearing as a defendant in a defamation case on Tuesday, has faced constant attacks because of his work to defend human rights and Indigenous and peasant communities in Guatemala

According to police, the documents calling for democracy that were confiscated in the raids may be considered treasonous

The people of Colombia have been mobilizing on the streets for the past three weeks against the government despite brutal state repression

The social leader and human rights defender was arrested on Saturday December 7 in the midst of a historic wave of protests in the country

Algirdas Paleckis, founder of the socialist Frontas Party, was secretly arrested in October 2018 on charges of “intending to kidnap prosecutors” and of being a Russian spy. He has not been permitted to meet anyone except his wife, and that too, on one occasion