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Amnesty International has described comments by Lord Dennis Rogan, praising the Sri Lankan government of President Rajapaksa after a visit to the country, as "fawning" over "a regime with blood on its...
The deaths of hundreds of people in detention facilities run by Nigeria’s military Joint Task Force (JTF) must be investigated as a matter of urgency, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty has...
Responding to today's publication of the London Assembly's Police and Crime Committee's report Arming the Met, Amnesty International UK’s Arms Programme Director, Oliver Sprague, said: "The report...
Amnesty International is calling for a full, impartial and independent investigation into the deaths of at least 49 people after the Egyptian security forces used excessive and unwarranted lethal...
The proposed introduction of compulsory ‘medical tests’ to bar migrant workers deemed homosexual or transgender from entering Kuwait and other Gulf countries, is outrageous and should be rejected out...
Following the announcement that The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International commented:...
‘Confessions’ obtained under torture … make it very likely that innocent people have been put to death in Iraq’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui The Iraqi authorities must immediately halt all executions...
‘It fits very well with the government’s aggressive and heavy-handed efforts to silence any dissent over the past years’ - Polly Truscott Sri Lanka’s reported decision to ban all protests in its...
Long-unavailable footage features music icons like Bruce Springsteen and Miles Davis
New campaign comes a week after Herman Wallace’s death Following the death last week of the “Angola 3” prisoner Herman Wallace, Amnesty International has launched a campaign for the release of his...