Governor Pat Quinn’s decision to abolish the death penalty across Illinois couldn’t have come a moment too soon. Particularly for the 15 men who were on death row across the US state. The mid-western state – for which President Obama...

Amnesty has been campaigning for Eynulla Fətullayev , a wrongly-imprisoned newspaper editor from Azerbaijan, for some time now. Today his father – who has received death threats after campaigning for his son’s release issued an...

Highlights Detentions Continue as Police Remain on High Alert over Protest Calls : With anonymous online postings calling for a third round of “Jasmine Revolution” protests this past weekend, police continued to detain and disappear...

Presunto Culpable (Presumed Guilty) is a documentary critical of the Mexican justice system . It centres on the case of a young man accused of murder. An appeals court has now declared that it is wrong to prevent the film being shown...

Charge or release. Them’s your options. We have heard it before. In fact, if word documents had predictive text, that might well be our default sentence here at Amnesty. When you hear about people currently being held in detention, in...