Indonesian environmental activist Muhammad Rosidi shudders as he recalls the horrific moment two men on a motorbike threw acid through the open window of his car as he was driving on Sumatra island in February.
Beijing has intensified its hold on civil society since President Xi Jinping took power in 2012
Ten years ago, human rights lawyer Li Fangping was enjoying a peaceful evening in his hometown in central China with his young son when he hea…
Estela de Carlotto is the leader of the 'Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo' activist group
Adriana Metz Romero is the sister or the recently-identified 'Grandchild No. 140', forcibly taken from his mother in 1977
Nearly five decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother, a Buenos Aires man has become the 1…
UN experts on Wednesday called on Venezuela's government to stop holding opponents and activists incommunicado, saying the practice often amou…
Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge cadre himself, previously introduced a law punishing those who deny atrocities committed by the movement
Cambodia's government approved a draft law that will jail for five years anyone denying atrocities, including genocide, committed by the Khmer…
Several children were among hundreds of people held in secret detention centres in Bangladesh, a commission investigating enforced disappearan…