Azerbaijan: Sentencing of human rights defender Mr Ilham Amiraslanov to two years imprisonment
President Ilham Aliyev, Office of the President, Azerbaijan Your Excellency, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I am came to know about the situaiton from Front Line Defenders. On 12 September 2012, human rights defender Mr Ilham Amiraslanov was sentenced to two years imprisonment by Sabirabad District Court. Ilham Amiraslanov is [...]
Human Rights. In four years, 61 human rights defenders were killed in Mexico
La Jornada: ”The InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) announced today its Second Report on the Situation of the Defenders of Human Rights, it which it reported–using information provided by local organizatios–that 61 activists were killed in Mexico between 2006 and 2010. It also noted that four activists from independent organization were disappeared in the same period, and [...]
Voice of Human Rights Defenders in UP, India
Uttar Pradesh biggest state of the nation with largest population also carries the distinction of maximum number of cases of torture by the state. The plights of Human Rights Defenders are no less pathetic than other states. Everyday newspaper carries the stories of the struggle faced by the human rights defenders in the remotest part [...]
