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Afghanistan: mosque suicide bombing condemned

Amnesty International has condemned a suicide bombing earlier today at the Eid Gah mosque in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province in Afghanistan. At least 40 people were killed in the attack as...

Arms dealer guilty verdict welcomed

Amnesty International today welcomed the news that a British arms dealer Gary Hyde had been found guilty on charges of illicit arms deals. The international arms dealer and former director of York...

Kenya: Rubber bullets fired at protesters and trumped-up charges against Amnesty staff

Demonstrators beaten by police while in custody Trumped-up charges against a group of human rights defenders in Kenya including Amnesty International staff and volunteers must be dropped, the...

Europe: Amnesty issues guidelines to police in wake of violent crackdowns on austerity protests

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. Europe...

Syria should release all prisoners of conscience in Eid amnesty

All peaceful activists and other prisoners of conscience detained in Syria must be set free, Amnesty International said today after a mass amnesty was granted ahead of the Eid al-Adha religious...

Amnesty 'deeply alarmed' at UK Government attempt to return Syrian activist to Damascus

Amnesty International has declared the attempt to remove a Syrian national to Damascus from the UK, deeply alarming. In a letter to the Home Secretary Theresa May, Amnesty called on the UK government...

Bahraini teachers face further jail time after 'nightmare' verdict

‘All these teachers did was to call for a strike in their role as trade union leaders’ - Philip Luther Amnesty International has denounced a decision to uphold prison sentences against two former...

Russia must investigate claims that MP's assistant tortured after Ukraine abduction

Claims that a Russian opposition MP’s assistant was abducted in Ukraine and forced to return to Russia where he has alleged he was tortured or otherwise ill-treated must be investigated, Amnesty...

Tunisian government is 'rolling back' human rights reforms - new report

Progress on human rights in Tunisia following the ousting of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is being rolled back by the current Tunisian government, Amnesty International warned today, as the country marks...

The Gambia: Seven men at risk of execution

Seven men are at imminent risk of execution in the Gambia, following Friday’s unanimous decision by the Supreme Court upholding their previous conviction for treason. Amnesty International has urged...