'In a pattern seen in East Timor last year, anyone who reports on the human rights situation is being targetted and driven away to ensure that there are no witnesses to the excesses of the security...

A Turkish penal court released the two policemen on Friday 3 March, after sentencing them to long prison terms and acquitted 18 others in the trial of the deaths of nine demonstrators, and the injury...

Several hundred political prisoners are being held in Cuba, most of whom were convicted after unfair trials Twenty eight of these have been recognized by Amnesty International as prisoners of...

In a letter sent to the New York City Police Commissioner, Howard Safir, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, the organisation expresses deep concern about the circumstances...

He was convicted on all but one of 20 charges against him and sentenced to 45 years' imprisonment, the highest sentence imposed so far, reflecting the gravity of the crimes committed and the accused's...

'The fact that Augusto Pinochet was arrested while travelling abroad -- almost unthinkable just 16 months ago -- has sent a powerful message: no one is above international law, even when national laws...

The visit today to Chechnya by the Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights and members of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture comes exactly four years after Russia joined...

ÏI was not beaten by the Chechens who held me but they treated me really badly. It was psychological ill-treatment. Every day I was expecting the worst to happen to me. I donÌt exactly know who held...

ÏAfter two decades of massacres, arbitrary detention , torture and killings, the 1997 peace accord gives the tribal people of the Chittagong Hill Tracts a real chance to experience daily life free...

Secretary General Pierre San», who led an Amnesty International delegation to the country last week to highlight the organisation's growing concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in...