Reports indicate that two lawyers working on behalf of protesters arrested in Oaxaca state, Jesús Manuel Grijalva and Mayen Arellanes, have been threatened over the past few weeks, apparently in reprisal for their human rights work with the Comité de Liberación 25 de Noviembre (Committee for the … [Read more...]

LUZ MARIA LLUVIAS FLORES - Lawyer RAÚL CRESPO CASARRUBIAS - Lawyer OSIRIS MARLENE AVILA ARELLANES - Lawyer BERNARDO SÁNCHEZ CRUZ – Lawyer On November 12, 2003 Luz Maria Lluvias Flores appeared before the local representative of the State Prosecutor’s Office (Ministerio Público del fuero … [Read more...]

Ms. Lydia Cacho, a prominent journalist and human rights activist, has received numerous death threats over the past several years. There was also an attempt on her life in February 2006 that has been attributed to her publication Los Demonios del Eden, which documents allegations that powerful … [Read more...]

Marcelino Santiago Pacheco, member of Organización de Pueblos Indígenas Zapotecos (OPIZ), Organization of Zapotec Indigenous Peoples has not been seen since leaving his residence in Oaxaca City on April 27, 2003. The spokesman for OPIZ, and member of the National Movement for the Freedom of … [Read more...]

Martín Barrios Hernández is the president of the Human ad Labour Rights Commission of Tehuacán Valley (Comisión de Derechos Humanos y Laborales del Valle de Tehuacán) in the state of Puebla. His campaign for the rights of maquiladora (assembly factory) workers in the region has been hampered by … [Read more...]

Sergio Dante Almaraz, a lawyer for Victor Javier Garcia who was detained, along with Gustavo González Meza, for the murder of eleven women in Ciudad Juárez, maintains that his client had been tortured while in custody and forced to make a false confession. AMR 41/006/2003 On February 2, 2002, … [Read more...]

Human rights lawyer Dante Almaraz was shot dead by unknown men in the center of Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua State, on 26 January 2006. A passenger in the car, reportedly Mr. Almaraz’s brother, was seriously wounded. Dante Almaraz carried out legal defence work on a number of cases involving women who … [Read more...]

ABOUT KARPAL SINGH On January 14, 2000, Mr. Singh was arrested on a charge under Malaysia's Sedition Act. The sedition charge against Mr. Singh was unprecedented in that it was based on words alleged to have been spoken by Mr. Singh in court while conducting the defence of his client, Anwar … [Read more...]

At approximately 7:15 p.m. on May 10, 2004 Ponnusamy Uthayakumar was en route from his office on Jalan Medang Tandok road in the Bangsar area of Kuala Lumpur to his home when he was attacked by three unidentified persons. Uthayakumar reported that at least three cars blocked the road preventing him … [Read more...]

Tian Chua is a long time political activist and member of the human rights group Suaram. He has campaigned for greater political freedom in the wake of the conviction of former Deputy Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim. On April 10th 2001, Tian Chua was arrested under the Malaysian Internal Security Act … [Read more...]