Human Rights Watch

The summary report underscores the need for the US government to promptly release the full report, bolster oversight of the CIA, and investigate and appropriately prosecute the senior officials responsible for the torture program.

Police and military personnel fired live ammunition at about 800 peaceful demonstrators, including women and children, in Papua. Six people were killed, and at least 17 others wounded.

Jason Rezaian has been held for four months without being formally charged with any crime.

In a landmark judgment on 5 December 2014, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled that Burkina Faso violated the right to freedom of expression of Burkinabé journalist Issa Lohé Konaté.

The United Arab Emirates’ deeply flawed new counterterrorism law will enable the courts to convict peaceful government critics as terrorists and sentence them to death.

The members of the Coalition Against Unlawful Surveillance Exports (CAUSE) have addressed an open letter to the Wassenaar Arrangement’s participating states ahead of their plenary meeting asking them to take heed of civil society views in their negotiations on dual-use goods and technologies.

Five days after former president Hosni Mubarak and his aides were acquitted of all charges of conspiring in the murder of protesters in 2011, an Egyptian criminal court sentences 188 defendants to death after a speedy mass trial.

A Tehran criminal court had convicted Soheil Arabi in August of sabb al-nabbi, or “insulting the prophet,” which carries the death penalty.