By Justin Mazzola, Attorney and researcher at Amnesty USA The news was hard to take when I first learned of it on 7 July – Chelsea Manning , who publicly stood up and took responsibility for releasing materials she felt would...

On Tuesday I was meant to see my father for the first time in five years. Instead he is spending his 1,918th night in prison in Iran. I am heartbroken. My father is 76 years old. He is a British-Iranian citizen and was arrested in Iran...

Written by Steve Symonds, Amnesty UK's Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme Director The power to detain is a long-standing Home Office obsession. For several years, the number of people detained has increased even as the proportion of...

By Sita Brahmachari, author Here I Stand is a collection of stories and poetry by Young Adult authors standing up for human rights under threat today. I was honoured to be invited to make a contribution about the plight of children in...

By Jules Carey, human rights lawyer As the vastly outnumbered Scottish forces looked out over the looming ranks of the English army on a September morning in 1297, William Wallace, the Scottish knight and leader roared ‘They may take...