Great news today that Shao Jiang, one of the student organisers of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests, is bound for Belfast, to speak at an Amnesty conference next month. Shao spent years in prison in China for his human...

I mentioned it in an earlier blog - the issue of the Iraqi interpreters who have worked for UK forces in Iraq and are being denied help by the UK - and the situations now really blown up. After days of coverage, including high-profile...

It’s always great to start the morning off on a positive note, it makes the day go so much better, I think. So I was delighted when after my first hour in the office I heard that the Foreign Office had requested that five British...

Chinese scholars and citizens petitioned the Chinese regime to take actions to improve human rights, the open letter “One World, One Dream, and Universal Human Rights ” also wrote to worldwide citizens who seek to protect human rights...

Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to press ahead with reforms in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. Nine French non-governmental organisations ( Action des chretiens pour labolition de la torture , Agir pour les...