In Iran peaceful public demonstrations were met with force. The police threatened and attacked the lawyers, human rights defenders and journalists.

A family at the US-Mexico border is applying for asylum. The parents are arrested and detained.

In 2008, US authorities held 270 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, without charge or trial. They severely tortured the prisoners.

In Cambodia, the criminal trial of former Khmer Rouge leaders allows victims to claim “moral and collective” legal damages

In northern Uganda, guerrillas kidnap children and force them into service as soldiers or sexual slaves for the army.

The border guards decided to return the woman to her home country.  They told her to wait in a room and handcuffed her to a chair.

In China, the police detained members of the Falun Gong religion and then selected some of them to torture and abuse.

A person at the border shows his papers at the border crossing point. All the papers are in order, but the agent doesn’t check the letters of invitation. The person is refused entry, and the agent does not give a reason.