[CHRB] New Allegations of Torture, Lawyer for a Political Prisoner Threatened with Disbarment (11/21-11/27, 2013) China Human Rights Briefing November 21 – 27, 2013 Contents Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment &...

One of the current pre-conditions of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC) is that key personnel within the regimes political, military and security structures need to be removed from positions of power for any credible transitional...

I recently gave a talk to our Mid-Gloucestershire group on the widespread use of political prison camps in North Korea. After the talk, one of the questions stuck with me: could we put pressure on the Chinese government to use their...

"We were not there to act like an army unit, we were there to act like a terror group." That's the chilling admission from a former member of the Military Reaction Force, a shadowy undercover unit of the British Army which operated in...

Yorm Bopha, a Cambodian activist, who was imprisoned on false charges to keep her quiet, has been released after more than 85,000 people signed our global petition including nearly 18,000 from the UK. ‘Thank you to Amnesty...