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Kyrgyz law enforcement in the capital, Bishkek, prevent showing of the movie "I am Gay and Muslim," which was arbitrarily banned by officials.

The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, during an official visit to Moscow, 3 October 2012.

Human Rights Watch, along with two of Russia's top human rights defenders, participated in a press conference held by Interfax in Moscow on October 4, 2012 to publicize the threats.

Human rights activist and a member of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East advisory committee Ahmed Mansoor speaks during a press conference in Dubai on January 26, 2011. On his left is Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa division.

The military court in northern Gaza City.

A voter casts her ballot in Gori during the Georgian parliamentary elections, 1 October 2012.

Zmitser Dashkevich, an opposition activist and a leader of the youth opposition movement Young Front, was convicted in March 2011 in connection with participation in peaceful protests following the December 2010 presidential elections.

At Heavenly Ministries Spiritual Revival and Healing Center, some people with presumed mental disabilities lived in buildings with cubicles for each resident and were chained to walls. They could not leave the cubicles without permission of the staff at the prayer camp.

These twelve men share a one room labor camp, with no beds and no air conditioner.

These photos are of youth who were sentenced to life in prison without parole. Each photo was taken within one year of the time of the crime. In the majority of the United States and under federal law, people are serving sentences of life without parole for crimes committed before their eighteenth birthday.