US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has fully implemented its new directive, announced in January, on immigration detainee transfers. The directive limits ICE’s ability to transfer detainees with nearby immediate family or attorneys of record to other detention facilities.
More than 50 million viewers of the Kony 2012 viral video now know that Joseph Kony, founder and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army, is a wanted man with the blood of many on his hands.
La hermana Consuelo Morales ha visto un incremento dramático en el número de personas en Monterrey que son torturadas, asesinadas o "desaparecidas" en los cuatro años desde que el Presidente de México envió a las fuerzas armadas para combatir los cárteles de las drogas.
Sister Consuelo Morales has seen the number of people in Monterrey who are tortured, killed, or “disappeared” skyrocket in the four years since Mexico’s president unleashed the military to combat drug cartels.
Anis Hidayah was literally going into labor with her second child when she answered her phone, suspecting it would be a migrant worker needing her help. She was right. The woman had recently returned to Indonesia and said she was being extorted before being allowed to return to her hometown.
Sussan Tahmasebi returned to her native Iran in 1999 for what she thought was a quick trip to reconnect with her roots, but she ended up staying for nearly 10 years, helping develop civil society to defend women’s rights.
《地狱的小巷》：中国的“黑监狱”
记者会
演讲者：索菲•理查森博士（Dr. Sophie Richardson）
人权观察亚洲部主任
مايكل نبيل (25 عاماً)، مسجون على خلفية نشاطه في مجال التدوين، وهو مضرب عن الطعام في سجن المرج منذ 23 أغسطس/آب احتجاجاً على سجنه الجائر. الإضراب مثير للقلق بشكل خاص لأنه مصاب بانخفاض ضغط الدم ويتعاطى أدوية للقلب.
Maikel Nabil, a 25-year imprisoned for blogging, has been on hunger strike at Marg prison since August 23 to protest his unjust imprisonment. The strike is of extra concern because he has low blood pressure and is taking medication for a heart condition.
As told by Chris Albin-Lackey, senior researcher for the Business and Human Rights division
