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Amnesty International has expressed its concern that a court in the Republic of Turkey has shut down a pro-Kurdish political party under laws that fail to meet international standards. Kurdish student union, meanwhile, has launched an online petition to support the party.

To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to three women who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights. Aminatou Haidar, right, Western Saharan human rights defender who has been on hunger strike since 15 November to protest her expulsion by the Moroccan authorities, was one of them.

One year after receiving the Rafto Prize, pastor Bulambo Lembelembe Josué, right, is still fighting to establish a dialogue between the rebel soldiers, government and international forces, and civilians in the Congolese Kivu region.

Mushfig Huseynov, a “Bizim yol” newspaper correspondent who is suffering from tuberculosis, is not receiving the right treatment, his father warned. Tofig Huseynov said that the two-month treatment in a specialized treatment facility for prisoners, his son received had not yielded any positive changes in his health.

Kerry Cook, right, has an almost unbearable story to tell. But he tells it, for students, activists, the media. Sometimes it is a relief to talk about the 21 years on death row. Other times, it opens the wounds. Amnesty International Norway shares an interview with an American who spent 22 years in jail on a death row being innocent.

A draft law aimed at preventing further violence in China’s troubled northwestern Muslim region seeks to strengthen “ethnic unity” through education and law enforcement, but exiled Uyghurs and overseas experts say the approach won’t work.

‘A brave woman pays the price for a misinterpreted interview,’ – stated an independent diplomat and writer Carne Ross at The Huffington Post, linking tough Moroccan stance to a recent interview by Hillary Clinton who praised Morocco’s human rights record. Meanwhile, Front Line launches an urgent action to support the expelled Sahrawi activist.

The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is seriously concerned for the health of two detained writers in Vietnam, Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and Nguyen Van Ly. International PEN seeks immediate assurances of their well being, urges that they be given full access to all necessary medical care and calls for the immediate and unconditional release of writers on humanitarian grounds.

Haidar was arrested by Moroccan authorities at the airport in Laayoune, the capital of her home country Western Sahara, upon her arrival back from the US where she had travelled to receive a human rights award. Her arrest follows a spate of recent arrests and confiscation of the travel documents of several Sahrawi activists by Moroccan authorities.