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Taser: Jordon Begley inquest verdict - Amnesty International statement

Responding to the verdict of the inquest into the death of 23-year-old Jordon Begley, Amnesty International UK’s Arms Programme Director Oliver Sprague said:

Northern Ireland: 68% back equal marriage - higher than Irish referendum. Amnesty calls for law change

“It’s high time Northern Ireland said a big ‘we do too’ to equality” - Patrick Corrigan

Mexico: Investigate order to 'take down criminals'

New evidence that a military order may have provoked massacre of 22 people

Surveillance tribunal reveals UK government spied on Amnesty International

Amnesty is calling for an independent inquiry into why UK has been spying on human rights organisations

Northern Ireland: Amnesty issues U.N. warning on Stormont House Agreement on Dealing with the Past

Amnesty International will tell the United Nations today that much work remains to be done to implement the Stormont House Agreement to ensure that mechanisms to deal with the past in Northern Irel

Egypt: crackdown is 'crushing an entire generation' of young people - new report

Teenager arrested and tortured for wearing anti-torture t-shirt is part of crackdown as country reverts to full ‘police state’ behaviour

Egypt: prosecutor's killing despicable but should not be pretext for state repression

‘The killing of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat was a despicable, cowardly and cold-blooded act of murder’ - Said Boumedouha

USA: Supreme Court lethal injection ruling leaves injustice of death penalty in place

Risk of wrongfully-convicted person being executed remains

USA: Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling strongly welcomed

‘This is a joyous day’ - Steven W Hawkins

Hobbit star Ryan Gage opens Hampton Court garden celebrating Magna Carta as Human Rights Act under threat

Eight hundred years since Magna Carta, a commemorative garden will mark the historic anniversary at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, at a time when modern-day human rights protections are