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 ...

José Daniel Ferrer said long periods in solitary confinement left him feeling buried alive. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ...

Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd al-Fattah was released from prison on Monday, ending a six-year detention on charges widely decried as politically motivated, after the Egyptian government pardoned ...

Veteran Belarus opposition leader Mikalai Statkevich has vanished after refusing to leave the country in a U.S.-negotiated ...

Agena Robert Ande has been re-elected as the Chairman of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) chapter of the African Action Congress (AAC). In a statement issued on Saturday, Ande described his ...

The death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison in the Arctic last year sparked an outcry around the world. He was compared to Nelson Mandela as a prisoner of conscience. While behind bars, he ...

We, the undersigned organizations, express deep concern over the continued arbitrary detention of the Saudi human rights defender Mohammed al-Bejadi more than two years beyond his sentence. His ...