Comparisons to Nazi doctors conducting experiments on death camp prisoners are definitely overblown, but there’s something horribly sinister about news that the CIA used doctors extensively during “war on terror” torture sessions. My...

Earlier today Amnesty supporters attended a vigil in London’s Parliament Square (where hundreds of Tamils were protesting earlier this year) to draw attention to the case of Tissa , a Tamil journalist who was jailed for twenty years in...

Let’s start with a numbers question. How many people is a thousand people? Not as easy as it sounds. Ever been at an event and someone asked you to say how many were there? You inevitably go: “Oh, about 200. No wait, maybe 300. No...

A horror film in words! Rouhi Shafii Some news are easy to believe and some need more time for the reader to digest. The number of the disappeared in the post-election Iran is not known. Many families are still searching for the loved...

For years, Iranian inside and outside the country have been trying to collect enough evidence to present to the International Court of Human rights so that the Court considers the crimes committed by the Iranian regime as crimes...