Amnesty International, the world’s largest human rights organisation, is celebrating 50 years of work tomorrow- the 28 May 2011 . As if you didn’t know. Surely you must have clocked this wonderful, harrowing piece on the BBC about...

“Yet if these feelings of disgust all over the world could be united into common action, something effective could be done.” Peter Benenson May 1961. Elvis Presley is on the radio. Spurs fans are celebrating topping the football league...

Prisoners passing their time playing video games frankly sounds a little bit like a luxury that would ordinarily be denied behind bars, but this has been happening in China,where prisoners are being forced to play online games , as...

Highlights 10-Year Sentence for “Inciting Subversion” Issued to Lü Jiaping: CHRD has learned that 70-year-old dissident and military scholar Lü Jiaping (吕加平) was handed a severe 10-year sentence on May 13 after being convicted of...

Yes, it’s true, Eynulla Fatullayev has been freed under presidential pardon . What a rollercoaster of a couple of days! On Tuesday, we launched a twitter action to free Eynulla Fatullayev , the Azerbaijani journalist who has been...