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

On Saturday, police illegally raided the village home of the party’s presidential candidate Dr. Fred M’membe

The circumstances of Mohammed Morsi’s death reflect the hopelessness in Egyptian politics following the return of the military

One year has passed since 5 activists and human rights defenders were arrested in India on trumped up charges in what was largely seen as a crackdown on dissent

The Sudanese Professionals Association is deeming the events a “bloody massacre”, and has called for a “total civil disobedience”, and vowed “we will not retreat”.

The Ecuadorian legal system continues to violate Bini’s most fundamental human rights in what is a clear case of political persecution

Political prisoner Ola Bini, who was arrested on April 11 in Quito, Ecuador and put into preventative detention, writes a letter to Ecuadorean president Lenín Moreno from prison