Former oil magnate Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, now imprisoned for fraud and awaiting the verdict in a second trial, was in the spotlight in Berlin Monday for a different reason - a human rights prize.
Two Germans arrested in Iran last month as they tried to interview the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery came for "espionage," an Iranian justice official claimed on Tuesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Burmese authorities to release the more than 2,000 political prisoners in the country, while applauding Saturday’s release of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Iran said it granted consular access to two arrested Germans who reportedly interviewed the son of a woman sentenced to death by stoning, as an activist said the son was to appear before judges Tuesday.
Two Germans arrested in Iran this week for interviewing the son of a woman facing execution by stoning have confessed to committing an offence, the public prosecutor said in reports on Friday.
Iran said on Monday it has arrested two foreigners thought to be Germans. Tehran claimed they were posing as journalists to interview the son of a woman facing execution by stoning in a case that has triggered international condemnation.
Prisoners have a right to protection against offensive symbols such as neo-Nazi graffiti and gross breaches of hygiene such as excrement smeared on their cell walls, Germany's constitutional court ruled Friday.
Just hours after Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Russia to ''find the truth'' about the murder of rights activist Natalya Estemirova, Russian authorities announced Thursday they had identified the killer.
<B>Germany, along with Britain and France, uses foreign intelligence obtained through torture in the fight against terrorism, a new report from Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.</b>
The city of Hamburg is facing heavy criticism following the suicide of a 17-year-old boy held in custody ahead of his planned deportation back to Georgia.
An Iranian-born German citizen is fighting to have his name removed from Interpol’s most-wanted list after allegedly being placed there by Iran for his work with Kurdish activists opposed to the regime in Tehran.
Guido Westerwelle, Germany's first openly gay foreign minister, said he fully aired Berlin's differences with Saudia Arabia over human rights issues during a visit to the country on Saturday.
The case of an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone who burned to death in a Dessau jail cell must be retried, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled on Thursday – the five-year anniversary of his death.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel hit out at the Chinese goverment on Friday after a Beijing court jailed Chinese dissident and human rights campaigner Liu Xiaobo for 11 years.
A new documentary film by a white journalist posing as a Somali immigrant is meant to highlight rampant racism in Germany, but his undercover method is garnering heavy criticism from black advocacy groups.
The Frankfurt Book Fair opens to the public on Saturday after a week of deal-making between publishers and agents from around the world. <b>Rhea Wessel</b> reports from behind the scenes of the literary frenzy.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she would press Chinese officials on human rights ahead of talks on Monday with the country's possible next president.
Frankfurt Book Fair organisers said Friday that two Chinese authors they had disinvited to a symposium after China threatened to boycott the event would attend after all – but not as official guests.
A Vietnamese reporter has been sacked after he made a blog post about the Berlin Wall in which he criticised his country's former communist ally, the Soviet Union.
Chancellor Angela Merkel met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Russia Friday and both called for deeper economic ties amid talk of several major Russian-German industrial deals in the works.
Germany’s foreign minister said Monday that the upcoming Olympic Games would herald a major “opening up” of Chinese society and urged Beijing to do more to ensure the rights of its minorities.
