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Simon Russell Beale to appear at 'Poems That Make Grown Men Cry' event at National Theatre

100 men on the words that move them - with Simon Russell Beale, Melvyn Bragg and Ian McEwan - Tuesday 29 April, 6pm

Malaysia: 'secret' execution planned for tomorrow

‘For Malaysia to try to carry out executions in near-total secrecy is shameful’ - Hazel Galang-Folli

USA: call for indigenous leader Leonard Peltier's release after exactly 38 years in jail

American Indian Movement’s fatal clash with FBI agents led to Peltier’s conviction despite ‘serious concerns’ over fairness

UN Vatican child abuse report: Northern Ireland victims 'being ignored' by executive

Amnesty International has welcomed today’s United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child report on The Holy See and children’s rights, saying that it should prompt action from Stormo

Sochi Olympics: Second prisoner of conscience jailed this week

The Russian authorities this morning sentenced environmental activist Igor Kharchenko to five days in detention for allegedly “resisting legitimate police orders”, Amnesty International said as it named him the…

Northern Ireland: Haass proposals are 'once in a generation opportunity'

‘The Haass proposals are a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deal with the past by delivering truth and justice for victims’

Sochi Olympics: Dissenting voices silenced as another environmentalist arrested ahead of Games

The re-arrest today of yet another environmentalist in Russia’s Krasnodar region, where the Sochi Winter Olympic Games will open on Friday, is more evidence of efforts to silence dissenting voices and clamp down on…

Europe: Transgender people must make 'odious' decision for legal recognition, Amnesty warns in new report

Transgender people across Europe are being forced to decide between undergoing a raft of degrading measures to have their gender legally recognised and living with a gender based on the sex they were assigned at…

Russia: environmentalist jailed for 'swearing' ahead of Sochi Olympics

‘Vitishko and his friends have been trying to expose environmental violations during the preparation of the Sochi Olympics’ - Denis Krivosheev