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Morocco: Campaign for 'Marrakesh 11' students

Amnesty International has launched a campaign for 11 students jailed in Morocco after they protested for better conditions and greater freedom of speech at their university. The 11 students - Zohra...

Papua New Guinea: Police violence and illegal evictions near Papua New Guinean gold mine must be investigated

The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold...

28 days to safeguard Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Wales

New Assembly Government Strategy expected Drastic improvements needed say campaigners Campaigners today (1st Feb) say that Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Wales have one...

Control orders review and cost revelations: Amnesty comment

Amnesty International UK today issued a call for the UK’s Control Orders regime to be scrapped, as Lord Carlile published his review into Control Orders and reports emerged of the soaring cost of...

Oxford-based playwright has award-winning drama aired on BBC Radio 4's Friday Play

On Friday 26th February, the winning play of iceandfire and Amnesty International’s 2008 Protect the Human playwriting competition, ‘After the Accident’ by Oxford-based Julian Armitstead will be aired...

Torture fears for 'disappeared' Iranian music journalist - New Amnesty campaign

Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to reveal the whereabouts of two music journalists, Behrang Tonekaboni and Kayvan Farzin and the reason why they have been detained. Both...

Honduras: Amnesty International issues human rights plan for Honduras

Honduras government faces confidence crisis if abuses are not addressed Amnesty International today issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the...

Malaysia: Opposition leader faces 'show trial'

Amnesty voices concern after Anwar Ibrahim is denied access to evidence Amnesty International urged the Malaysian authorities to drop politically-motivated criminal charges of sodomy against Anwar...

Uzbekistan: Fears raised for photographer facing jail

Amnesty International has voiced its fears that the forthcoming trial of a prominent photographer in Uzbekistan is just the latest attempt by the Uzbek authorities to suppress freedom of expression in...

Iran protesters unfairly convicted and unjustly killed, says Amnesty

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were...