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Chinese leaders lay flowers in Belfast to mark 25 year anniversary of Tiananmen massacre

This morning, Wednesday 4 June, Chinese community leaders will gather in Belfast to lay flowers to remember those killed in China&r

China: crackdown shows authorities still 'running scared of spirit of Tank Man' 25 years after Tiananmen

On the eve of the 25 th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Amnesty International has documented a further 30 activists who have been persecuted as the Chinese

Russia: right to protest 'in danger of being lost altogether' - new report

‘The right to freedom of assembly has long been limited in Russia, but it is now in danger of being lost altogether’ - Denis Krivosheev

Turkmenistan must grant retrial to hunger-striker on brink of death

Mansur Mingelov had collected evidence of police torture before suffering unfair trial

China: Detention of artist for Financial Times interview on Tiananmen condemned

The Chinese authorities must end the persecution of people attempting to mark the 25 th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown, Amnesty International said after a Chinese-born Australian

Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes announcement on overdue racial equality strategy

Amnesty International has welcomed the announcement from the Northern Ireland Executive that it will publish the long-delayed Racial Equality Strategy before Stormont's summer recess.

Iran: repression of students and academics has 'squeezed life out' of universities - new report

Crackdown has seen ‘Islamicisation’ of university curriculums to banish ‘Western’ influences

India: Gang rape and murder of teenage girls 'damning indictment of failure to stem violence against women'

The gang-rape and murder of two teenage Dalit girls in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh is a gruesome reminder of the violence that Dalit women and girls face in India, Amnesty International India said today.

China: Mass sentencing of Uighurs in stadium condemned as 'charade'

The deplorable mass sentencing of 55 people at a stadium in China’s north-western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region is a charade which will only exacerbate tensions in the region, Amnesty Int