Twenty-five years ago today, loyalist gunmen sledge-hammered their way into the Belfast home of lawyer Patrick Finucane and shot him dead in front of his wife and young children. Since then, compelling evidence has emerged to show that...

Back in December I was lucky enough to meet Russian human rights lawyer Rustam Matsev. Rustam had spent the last few months studying in London and approached Amnesty before he was due to leave, asking us if there was anything he could...

Anthony Holden is a writer, broadcaster and critic, and was the US Editor for the Observer and Assistant Editor for The TImes. He's written many biographies including one on Tchaikovsky, and watched the Sochi 2014 opening ceremony to...

China Human Rights Briefing January 31-February 6, 2014 Contents Enforced Disappearance Guizhou Activist, Wife F orcibly Disappeared Since September, Whereabouts Unknown Arbitrary Detention Police Seek Indictment of Journalist Who...

Standing on the shore at Newcastle during the recent tidal surges, I watched wave after wave crashing over the harbour wall. The wall, otherwise imposing on a clear day, seemed a puny human artifice as it was battered by the tide and...