One of the arrested children, Humam al Rushodi, whose father is a prisoner. via e3teqal

Saudi Jeans writes an open letter to jailed Saudi blogger Fouad Al Farhan here.

During my visit in 2009, a Yemeni hunger striker, Mohammad Saleh, died.

Bahraini blogger Hussain Yousif describes his jailed friend blogger Ali Abdulemam in this post.

Yemeni blogger Yemen Eye (Ar) expresses his support for jailed Saudi blogger Fouad Al Farhan in this post.

Lou from Saudi Arabia pays tribute to jailed Saudi blogger Fouad Al Farhan in this post.

As at 1 May, Messrs. Privert and Neptune remained in detention in the annex of the National Penitentiary.

Daloosh The more eyes we lose, the clearer our vision will become. Time up SCAF and co. Tahrir Pigs Others have also reported arrests.

On his Facebook Page, journalist Sidi Mohammed Bellamech wonders

Schhr, Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters blog reports that relatives of the jailed students are worried about their conditions in detention.

Saudi Twitter users have joined forces to highlight the plight of a political prisoner Shaikh Yusuf Al Ahmad on the micro blogging site.

There were no legal provisions regulating the presence of children in detention and even fewer facilities to attend to their needs.

Al Ayaf has been in jail for six years now. He was tried and acquitted, but he still remains in jail.

The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month.

Thousands of Palestinians had died since the beginning of the latest uprising thousands more had been wounded and others were being tortured or treated inhumanely in detention.

In fact, the only thing concerning Gitmo that the Obama administration has shut down is the office of the special envoy, Daniel Fried, who had been tasked with its closure.

My imprisoned friend, I am sure you aren t listening to our empty words. You don t care that we stand in solidarity with you. You pay no attention to the hypocrisy, the deceptive gestures or support groups we form.

(c) Granting persons who are set at liberty the right to file a complaint about any ill treatment that occurred during their time in prison.

As their designated representative, al Hanashi knew which prisoners had claimed to have been tortured or abused, and by whom.

According to the spokesman for the US Southern Command, which oversees Gitmo, the hunger strikers are disillusioned, because they believed Obama s pledge to close Gitmo.

The National Press Club has announced the international recipient of the 2010 John Aubuchon Freedom of the Press Award is Iranian blogger Kouhyar Goudarzi, who is being held in Tehran's Evin Prison notorious for its torture of detainees.

Abdolhamid Rigi () (also spelt Abdul hamid Rigi or Abdulhamid Rigi ) (c. 1979 May 24, 2010) was the elder brother of the detained leader of Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi.

Security forces surrounded the houses and reportedly forced all family members into one room, while the arrested person was beaten up and insulted by the soldiers before being taken away.

On the second issue, she had received several allegations of situations where the right of freedom of religion or belief of detained persons had been violated, or where the religion of detained persons had been used for purposes of ill treatment.

Now that US President Barack Obama has taken the decision to do so, the EU stands ready to provide political and practical support to the United States to help achieve that goal.

Bloggers in Syria are running an online campaign to raise awareness about the case of the 23 years old Syrian blogger, Tarek Baiasi, who has been arrested since July 7th, 2007 for critical comments he posted on a deemed sensitive website.

Moath is the son of Reema al Jourish, who has been known for her very active role in opposing the arbitrary imprisonment of her husband, Abdullah al Hamili, who has been imprisoned for 10 years without a court ruling.

The account is now managed by a supporter, who tweets updates on Al Ahmad, his imprisonment conditions and how his elderly mother, who is sick with cancer, is faring.

This sense of responsibility for other people's lives when he was just 17 and also his guilt for being a survivor, since he had escaped the camp when his friends had not stayed with him all his life.

North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world s most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.

Hossein Ronaghi Maleki,jailed blogger,has started his hunger strike since last Saturday.His health conditions are in dire situation and he was moved for two hours to a hospital .Another political prisoner started hunger strike to support him.

In July 1999, Lieutenant General Ali Issa Douba, then Head of the Syrian Military Intelligence Department (SMID), ordered the military police to transfer Mr. al Zu'bi to the detention facility Branch No. 293 , where he is currently detained in solitary confinement.

A group of journalist, members of the MJIC and a few leaders of the FFS organised a protest in front of the Syrian embassy in Algiers in solidarity with reporter Khaled Sid Mohand currently detained in Syria (fr).

The consequences of these mass arrests, characterized by dubious evidence, procedural irregularities and tampering, not only affect the presumption of innocence, but also cause stigmatization by displaying the name, and sometimes the photograph or picture of the arrested persons, before the media and the public.

How better to memorialize that decision than with a building boom at the prison? The new facility for which the money is to be earmarked will house 106 prisoners (the precise number is uncertain) who have been neither tried nor charged.

General Sultani Makenga, the military leader of the M23 also gave an interview recently where he speaks about the fluid leadership of the M23 movement , giving updates on the status of former CNDP leader Laurent Nkunda and arrested general Bosco Ntaganda within the movement.