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Amnesty International has condemned as a war crime Sunday’s attack on a Catholic church in Baghdad by an armed group, in which about 100 worshippers were taken hostage and more than 40 then killed as...
A new project by visual artist Tamsyn Challenger featuring nearly 200 exceptional artists including Tracey Emin, Paula Rego, Swoon, Maggi Hambling and Humphrey Ocean will be unveiled at a London...
A summary of key Amnesty International human rights concerns on Yemen: Unfair trials and prisoners of conscience In recent years hundreds of people in Yemen have been jailed after unfair trials. Those...
Amnesty International is calling on the Egyptian authorities to release or charge all detained supporters of opposition groups ahead of next month's parliamentary elections, following a new wave of...
Amnesty International is calling on the Italian authorities to investigate urgently whether 68 people rescued at sea and then forcibly returned to Egypt within 48 hours were given the opportunity to...
Plans for urban development of waterfront areas in the Rivers State capital of Port Harcourt, Nigeria are being developed at the expense of making more than 200,000 people homeless, warns Amnesty...
Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a young Sri Lankan woman who has lost her appeal against a death sentence for a murder committed when allegedly...
Responding to reports that a UK company supplied the drug used as part of the lethal injection in the execution earlier today of Jeffrey Landrigan, a prisoner in the state of Arizona in the United...
Amnesty International today called on the Iraqi authorities not to execute former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and two other former officials sentenced to death by a Baghdad court. Tariq Aziz...
“The fact that the military commission system falls short of international fair trial standards is not changed by a plea deal being reached in Omar Khadr’s case” - Rob Freer Amnesty International has...