Sources: Global Post
Judge Paul Golspring of the Westminster Magistrates' Court refers to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to sign an extradition order to the United States for Julian Assange in relation to WikiLeaks concerning human rights abuses in the Guantanamo detention camp and the Iraq war and the war in Afghanistan. 2022-04-20
The ASEAN Summit takes place virtually without the participation of Myanmar, following the bloc's decision to disinvite the country's military junta chief Min Aung Hlaing for refusing to cooperate on a peace process. 2021-10-26
Saudi Arabia releases two women's rights activists, Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sadah, after they completed and served their sentences. Both women were detained in July 2018 along with a dozen other activists. Human rights group welcome the release, with Human Rights Watch praising the women's activism. 2021-06-27
Anders Behring Breivik, a convicted mass murderer in the 2011 Norway attacks, wins a human rights case against the government of Norway. 2016-04-20
The United Nations warns of a deterioration of human rights in eastern Ukraine and the harassment and persecution of the Crimean Tartars in Crimea. 2014-05-16
The Vatican denies claims that Pope Francis failed to speak out against human rights abuses during military dictatorship in Argentina. 2013-03-15
Egyptian human rights lawyer Ahmed al-Gizawi is sentenced to five years imprisonment and 300 lashes in Saudi Arabia. 2013-01-15
Three Venezuelan hunger strikers are hospitalised after calling for an international probe into alleged human rights abuses by the President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez. 2011-02-21
Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari is convicted of gathering and plotting to commit crimes against the Iranian state, propaganda against the establishment and waging war against God. 2010-09-18
Fiji announces that it seeks observer status in ASEAN after its suspension from the Pacific Islands Forum was extended. Timor-Leste seeks to become a member of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. 2010-08-14