Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in

Latest posts

Mar 5 2014 12:23PM
Huber Matos: The Night Has Come

Huber Matos, who was Amnesty’s first Cuban prisoner of conscience, has died aged 95. Matos was a schoolteacher who became an army commander in the revolutionary forces fighting to overthrow the Batista government. However, he disagreed...

Mar 5 2014 3:48AM
Detained Activist Cao Shunli in Intensive Care After Authorities Repeatedly Deny Treatment

(Chinese Human Rights Defenders, February 20, 2014) – CHRD is alarmed by reports that detained activist Cao Shunli (曹顺利) is in critical condition following denials and a long delay in treatment by authorities at Chaoyang District...

Mar 5 2014 3:43AM
[CHRB] (2/14-27/2014) Police Beat Former Masanjia Labor Camp Detainees, Uyghur Scholar Arrested

China Human Rights Briefing February 21-27, 2014 Contents Arbitrary Detention Activists Detained Outside Hospital Where Cao Shunli Is in Critical Condition Uyghur Scholar Arrested on Concocted “Splittism” Charge Liu Xia Hospitalized...

Mar 3 2014 2:03PM
Missing in Ukraine - Urgent help required.

A version of the story below was published by the Sunday Mail in Scotland yesterday. It's about Oleksey Suprun who has been missing in Kiev for over two weeks now. Indeed, hundreds of people have gone missing in Ukraine recently...

Mar 2 2014 2:59PM
2013 Human Rights report on Indigenous people of Bangladesh

The 2013 Human Rights Report on Indigenous people of Bangladesh has been published by the Kapaeeng Foundation, with the support of Oxfam and the European Union. The report shows that, in 2013, the number of incidents of human rights...