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Amnesty International calls on Scots to ensure those they care about don’t lose out New research commissioned by Amnesty International in Scotland reveals only 45% of Scottish people have made a Will...
The organisation, which recently arranged for the Israeli to speak to Amnesty International UK members via live telephone link at its National Conference in Lancaster, reiterates its call on Israel to...
Mr Richey won an appeal against his sentence in January this year. The successful appeal to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati overturned Richey’s conviction for arson and murder in the...
Those at risk include 11 foreign nationals sentenced in an unfair trial in November 2004 following the failed "coup plot" in which Britons Simon Mann and Sir Mark Thatcher were implicated. Dozens of...
In recent weeks attempts by the Council of Europe to adopt three new treaties, one on trafficking of human beings, and two on "terrorism", have been stalled as a result of positions taken by EU...
Amnesty International understands that EU justice and home affairs ministers will discuss future co-operation with Libya on illegal immigration on the basis of a report by the European Commission...
The new report - The death penalty worldwide: developments in 2004 - shows that at least 3,797 people were executed in 25 countries in 2004 and that at least 7,395 were sentenced to death in 64...
Racism is a major element in many of the cases and all involve persons of foreign, predominantly Arab and African, origin. Complaints about police conduct in France increased by nearly 20 per cent in...
The report by the Control Arms campaign - Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) - shows that while weapons and ammunition often do carry...
According to reports received by Amnesty International, police beat several of the Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights during and after arrest. Some were beaten on their...