Sentence examples for detention of human from inspiring English sources
It noted the harassment and detention of human rights activists, journalists and dissidents.
A Canadian journalist learned that on Wednesday when she asked about the Chinese government's detention of human rights advocates and a Canadian couple accused of espionage.
Amnesty International Australia said it had repeatedly recorded and exposed repressive tactics by the Bahraini government against civil society including travel bans, dissolution of opposition groups and media, and arbitrary detention of human rights defenders.
In an open letter, published below, NGOs and campaigners led by Amnesty International UK have called on the Prime Minister to address "grave concerns" over the detention of human rights lawyers, repression of ethnic minorities and a crackdown on freedom of worship.
While many elements of the crackdown have previously been described, including the indefinite detention of human rights workers and intense coercion against the families of refugees who fled Uzbekistan after the demonstration, the report was the most thorough description to date of the crackdown in one of the most autocratic of the former Soviet states.
Between the United States' most recent arms deal with Taiwan, international concern regarding a slew of arbitrary detention of human rights activists in China, and growing concern of widespread oppression to Tibetan and Uighur activists, the Chinese feel the pressure to react more strongly than usual.
Beijing has denied claims that the recent detentions of human rights lawyers are part of a political campaign.
In New York on Monday, a spokesman for Ban said Bahgat's apprehension was "just the latest in a series of detentions of human rights defenders and others that are profoundly worrying".
Levan Asatiani, Amnesty International's campaigner for the South Caucasus said the situation in Azerbaijan had deteriorated dramatically in the past two weeks with the detention of veteran human rights campaigner Intigam Aliyev charged with tax evasion.
Officially, this was in response to fairly mild and standard criticism of the detention of Saudi human rights activists a few days earlier by the Canadian foreign minister and the Foreign Ministry itself.
