Nizar Zakka, arrested in 2015 and convicted of spying for the United States, was released to Lebanese authorities.
Tag: Political Prisoners
Saudi Teenager Faces Death Sentence for Acts When He Was 10
The execution of the teenager, Murtaja Qureiris, now 18, would be what rights groups called one of the most egregious violations of international law.
Fearing China’s Rule, Hong Kong Residents Resist Extradition Plan
The fight against the proposal has become the most serious showdown between the public and the authorities since the Umbrella protests in 2014 demanding free elections.
Tiananmen Anniversary Draws Silence in Beijing but Emotion in Hong Kong
Thirty years after hundreds, possibly thousands, of demonstrators were killed, memories of the bloodshed remain fraught.
He Stayed at Tiananmen to the End. Now He Wonders What It Meant.
Zhou Duo helped evacuate Tiananmen Square in 1989. These days he defends the movement, but sees democracy in retreat in the West and far-off in China.
Joshua Wong, Hong Kong Protest Leader, to Return to Prison After Appeal
A three-month sentence for his role in pro-democracy protests in 2014 was reduced on Thursday to two months.
They Resisted Hitler. They Were Executed. At Last, They Lay at Rest.
After the prisoners were killed, their bodies were given to a researcher. More than 75 years later, hundreds of slides bearing microscopic remains were buried.
Inside Syria’s Secret Torture Prisons: How Bashar al-Assad Crushed Dissent
Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been locked away in filthy prisons where thousands were tortured to death — and the pace of arrests and executions is accelerating.
Myanmar Freed Two Reporters From Prison. It’s Not a Paradigm Shift.
Activists said the release of two Reuters journalists did not mean broad improvement for freedom of expression and other rights that are in jeopardy in Myanmar.
Myanmar Releases Reuters Journalists Jailed for Reporting on Rohingya Crackdown
The two reporters, U Wa Lone, 33, and U Kyaw Soe Oo, 29, who received the Pulitzer Prize, were to serve seven years in prison.