China Human Rights Briefin January 3-9, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Guangdong Activists Seized for Hunger Strike Related to June Fourth, Lawyer Also Detained Democracy Activist Yang Kuang Criminally Detained Torture and Other...

China Human Rights Briefin January 3-9, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Guangdong Activists Seized for Hunger Strike Related to June Fourth, Lawyer Also Detained Democracy Activist Yang Kuang Criminally Detained Torture and Other...

On Friday 17 January family members, dignitaries and community representatives in Greater Manchester and elsewhere are to pay their respects to the British doctor Dr Abbas Khan , and also to remember the thousands of other victims of...

If you’re gay and live in Africa, this hasn’t been a good couple of weeks . Both Nigeria and Uganda, instead of setting an example with their laws (such as South Africa in the 90s), are going backwards towards state-sanctioned...

Guest blog from Michael Morpurgo Amnesty at 50 For fifty years now, all my adult life, Amnesty has been there keeping watch over the injustices and wrongs and cruelties we inflict on one another, reminding us urgently that in this oh...