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May 24 2012 11:53AM
Activist Feng Zhenghu's Illegal House Arrest Proves No Lessons Learned From Chen Guangcheng Abuses

Activist Feng Zhenghu's Illegal House Arrest Proves No Lessons Learned From Chen Guangcheng Abuses (Chinese Human Rights Defenders, May 24, 2012) – Two months before Chen Guangcheng (陈光诚) dramatically escaped from illegal house arrest...

May 23 2012 10:39AM
Amnesty Students March for an Arms Trade Treaty

Here is a blog by Molly Robertson from Amnesty’s Queen Margaret University Student Society, writing about the hugely successful student march that took place on Edinburgh’s iconic Royal Mile on 12 May 2012. When the Amnesty group at...

May 22 2012 8:40PM
Allegations of institutional racism against Roma in Britain.

Please click on the links below to read my report published last Sunday (20th May) by Scotland On Sunday which exposes racism against Roma by the Department of Work and Pensions and Her Majesty's Inland Revenue in the UK. http://www...

May 22 2012 3:53PM
Guest blog by Vivien Caldwell, Amnesty Paisley Group - Human Trafficking

Amnesty Group Paisley are excited to say that Fri 4 May saw the Unite against Human Trafficking Conference come together in what turned out to be a very successful and productive day. The group planned the conference in partnership...

May 22 2012 10:25AM
Lawyers for Chen Kegui Challenge Local Police’s Unlawful Obstruction of Efforts to Defend Client

China Human Rights Briefing: Special Edition May 22, 2012 Lawyers for Chen Kegui Challenge Local Police’s Unlawful Obstruction of Efforts to Defend Client CHRD has obtained a letter addressed to the police chief of the Yinan County...