Alexei Navalny and Mulberry Street
By Gwynne Dyer By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next...
Amnesty International
Amnesty raises concerns over deregistration of migrant support group
Amnesty International expressed concern on Wednesday over new rules passed by the government that could see anti-racism and migrant support organisation Kisa shut down. “As...
Amnesty: Cyprus police violence must be investigated and blanket ban on protests lifted
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Cypriot authorities to lift the “unlawful and disproportionate” blanket ban on demonstrations while also criticising the police for using unnecessary...
Man, wrongly convicted in Hungary, reunited with family in Cyprus
Authorities in Cyprus have finally allowed Ahmed H, a Syrian man wrongly convicted in Hungary in a blatant misuse of terrorism-related charges, to return to...
Amnesty: Cyprus is the last hope for Syrian family man jailed in Hungary
THE Cyprus government offers the last hope for a Syrian man to return to his family in Cyprus, according to Amnesty International as they launched a...
Cyprus has high reporting rate but low convictions for rape
By Lizzy Ioannidou CYPRUS is among just six out of the 33 countries that have ratified the Council of Europe’s convention on preventing and combating...
For women in Greek migrant camps, even showers are unsafe – Amnesty
By Karolina Tagaris Women in Greek migrant camps are too scared to leave their tents at night or use communal showers, and many pregnant women...
Turkish court releases local chair of Amnesty International
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the conditional release of the jailed chairman of Amnesty International in Turkey, the rights group said, although the trial...
‘I have no idea why we’re here,’ Turkish activist tells trial
A Turkish human rights activist denied terrorism charges on Wednesday, declaring “I have no idea why we’re here”, at a trial of 11 activists that...
Turkish prosecutor seeks 15-year jail sentence for rights activists
A Turkish prosecutor has called for jail sentences of up to 15 years on terrorism charges for a group of rights activists including the local...
