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New petition for release of Guantánamo detainee Shaker Aamer

‘This terrible farce has gone on long enough’ - Kate Allen

Saudi Arabia: online activist to be flogged in a public square tomorrow

First 50 of 1,000 lashes set to be meted out to Raif Badawi in Jeddah tomorrow

Sri Lanka: First severed dogs' heads, now death threats for opposition ahead of tomorrow's election

The Sri Lankan authorities must hold to account those who threatened three prominent opposition activists with death today and ensure that tomorrow’s presidential election passes without furt

Tunisia: jailed blogger Yassine Ayari should be freed immediately

‘Tunisia must repeal laws that allow for such prosecutions if it wants to show it is making a clean break from the past’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui

Nigeria: Long awaited victory as Shell finally pays out £55 million over Niger Delta oil spills

“Oil pollution in the Niger Delta is one of the biggest corporate scandals of our time”

Haiti: "Quick fix" housing for earthquake survivors leave Haitians homeless or in limbo

Tens of thousands of survivors of Haiti’s earthquake which rocked the Caribbean country five years ago are homeless as a result of forced evictions and government policy failure Amnesty Inter

Child abuse inquiry: New hearing set to be 'one of the darkest chapters'

Amnesty International today warned that the latest hearing in the historic institutional abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland which got underway today will be one of the darkest chapters in the ongoin

EGYPT: Retrial of Al Jazeera journalists must pave way to their unconditional freedom

An Egyptian court’s call for a retrial of three jailed Al Jazeera journalists acknowledges major flaws in the original convictions but leaves the men in unjust incarceration, Amnesty Internat

Northern Ireland: Amnesty predicts 2015 court challenge to same-sex marriage ban

Amnesty International has welcomed the first same-sex weddings in Scotland and said it looked forward to a court challenge in

Eastern Ukraine: humanitarian disaster looms as food aid blocked by pro-Kiev battalions

‘Using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime’ - Denis Krivosheev