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Syria: Today's attacks are 'new and outrageous low'

At least 393 people killed since protests began The Syrian government's brutal reaction to its people's demand for change has reached a new and outrageous low, Amnesty International said today, as...

Scores killed in Syria as 'Great Friday' protests are attacked

At least 75 people have been killed today in Syria during mass protests, local human rights activists told Amnesty International, as the government launched its deadliest crackdown yet on...

Bahrain: international pressure needed to halt human rights crisis - new report

To avoid charge of double standard, world needs to do more - Malcolm Smart Bahrain’s allies must take stronger action to address the rapidly worsening human rights crisis in the small but strategic...

Hungary: Newly adopted constitution at odds with human rights

Amnesty International is deeply concerned that the new Constitution of the Republic of Hungary, adopted by the Hungarian National Assembly on 18 April, violates international and European human rights...

Italy must stop summary removals to Tunisia and avert another humanitarian crisis on Lampedusa, says Amnesty

Amnesty International has written to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the Minister of Interior Roberto Maroni, expressing profound concern over collective, summary removals of Tunisians...

Syria: As death toll tops 228, 'great Friday' protests must be 'policed sensitively

The Syrian authorities must not respond with violence to mass demonstrations planned across the country tomorrow, Amnesty International urged on the eve of a Facebook-promoted "Great Friday" protest...

Bradley Manning: Kansas move will need close human rights monitoring

Following the announcement that the US soldier accused of leaking documents to the WikiLeaks organisation is being moved to a new detention centre after concerns over his treatment, Amnesty...

Egypt: 'Uniforms have changed, but abuse continues' - new report calls for major abuse investigation

Members of the security forces who have brutally repressed Egyptians for decades must be held to account, Amnesty International said today (20 April), as it released a major new report into the use of...

Fifty Fatullayevs outside London Embassy demand release of jailed Azerbaijani journalist

Protesters wearing masks bearing the face of jailed journalist Eynulla Fatullayev will stage a protest outside the Azerbaijani Embassy on Wednesday 20 April 2011. The demonstration, by five London...

Syria: Reform pledges ring hollow amid killings

‘There must be no more slaughter’ - Malcolm Smart Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad must back up his pledge to introduce reforms with immediate, concrete action to end the continuing wave of killings...