Belarussian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich today received the EU’s top human rights award – the Sakharov Prize – in recognition of his fight for democracy in the ex-Soviet republic.

An Islamic appeals court in northern Nigeria was today deciding the fate of a single mother facing death by stoning for adultery in a case that has drawn international outrage.

A Nigerian couple, who were sentenced to death by stoning in August for committing adultery, have not been told of their sentences, their lawyer said today.