“We must be careful today. Last time, the police used tear gas and we had to run.” This was my interpreter’s warning as we walked to the court in Ankara to observe the third hearing of a trial for Amnesty in December 2013. The...

Tribute to Amnesty International worker, Catherine Suggitt, nee Snowden, by Valerie Doulton Catherine and I first got to know each other well in meetings to discuss Female Genital Mutilation many years ago, this was the first time this...

Contents Arbitrary Detention Citizen Journalist Criminally Detained in Beijing for Filming a Demonstration Popular Tibetan Monk Seized in Chengdu Enforced Disappearance Beijing Resident Disappears after Home Illegally Demolished...

Sitting on a thin mattress inside a ramshackle structure on a muddy hilltop, elderly Abu Fares told me how he came to live in poverty in Iraq’s relatively prosperous northern Kurdistan region. For the past 11 months, he and his wife –...

In December 2013, it was widely reported that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un mercilessly ordered the execution of his once-powerful uncle for acts of treachery. His alleged crimes ranged from corruption and womanising to...