Russian cartoonist Sergei Tunin criticizes President Obama’s lackluster apology for torture perpetrated by the US government.
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Nazeeha Saeed, who was imprisoned and tortured during the pro-democracy protests in 2011, discusses the state of journalism in Bahrain and her struggle for justice in this edition of The Freedom Chat.
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In this installment of The Freedom Chat, correspondent Nazeeha Saeed discusses the status of free speech in Bahrain and an unfortunate aftershock of the 2011 uprising.
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Sampsonia Way presents a series that compiles the experiences of physicians who donate their time to The Asylum Network of Physicians for Human Rights.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the plight of the persecuted Falun Gong practitioners in China, who are often tortured in re-education labor camps.
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January 13 was the third wholesale amnesty and commutation of sentences under the new government yet an estimated one thousand prisoners of conscience remain in Burmese jails.
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After facing brutal torture, Ayat al-Qarmezi from Bahrain was sentenced on June 20 to one year in prison for reading her anti-regime poem at a pro-democracy rally at Manama’s Pearl Square back in February 2011.
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