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People trafficking: response to Met police unit closure fears

Responding to reports that the Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Team may be disbanded, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “We’re extremely concerned that if the Met’s highly...

Russia: Three years after Politkovskaya killing - Threat levels rising

New letter to President Medvedev urges action, as attacks continue Human rights activists in Russia and the North Caucasus are facing increasing violence and intimidation three years after the...

Iran: Child offender due to be executed today - Amnesty appeal

The execution of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini in Iran today (5 October) - for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 - must be stopped, Amnesty International warned today. Amnesty...

Iran: Amnesty welcomes postponement of child offender's execution

Amnesty International today (5 October) welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of committing a murder while still a child. Abbas Hosseini...

Guinea: International inquiry needed into Conakry killings and rapes

Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate mounting reports of deliberate killings, rape and other human rights abuses by security forces in Conakry...

Exclusive decree gives green light to increased abuses in Honduras

Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti must rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew, said Amnesty...

Chad: Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls fleeing Darfur conflict still subjected to rape around camps despite UN presence

Darfuri refugee Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad...

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Fourteen years on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights raped in war continue to be denied their rights

Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls who were raped during the 1992...

Malaysia: Shariah court sentences Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights to the cane for drinking alcohol

Amnesty International condemns upholding of sentence Amnesty International today condemned the decision by a Shariah Court in Malaysia to uphold the decision to sentence a 32-year-old woman to six...

Keane drummer says 'Inspired by strength' of death row prisoner

Richard Hughes, the drummer from best-selling rock band Keane has spoken today of how he was inspired by the strength of man he has visited on death row in Georgia, USA. Richard Hughes, 34, Keane’s...