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Chad: Urgent international action needed to prevent humanitarian crisis

Amnesty International is calling on all parties to the conflict in eastern Chad not to attack civilians or place them at risk, and that the full complement of United Nations peacekeeping troops...

Iran: Release of US-Iranian journalist welcome

Amnesty International has welcomed the news that the US-Iranian journalist, Roxana Saberi, is to be released from jail in Iran later today (Monday). Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s...

Iran: Man faces death by stoning for adultery

Amnesty International warned today that a 30-year-old man is at imminent risk of being stoned to death in the city of Rasht, northern Iran after being convicted of "adultery while being married"...

Italy/Malta: Don't play with human lives

By failing to protect the rights of migrants and asylum-seekers rescued at sea, the Italian and Maltese governments have breached their international obligations, Amnesty International said today....

Malaysia: Government crackdown on freedom of expression

Amnesty International calls on the Malaysian authorities to release five government critics arrested in the last two days, or charge them with recognisable criminal offences. This wave of arrests is...

Amnesty launches new online anti-torture film

Amnesty International has today launched a hard-hitting online film about torture, showing activists intervening to prevent a torture victim being further abused. The 90-second film, entitled “Defy...

Guatemala: 40 death threats sent by text message

Amnesty International has warned that the lives of nine activists working for two prominent human rights organisations in Guatemala are at risk after they received dozens of death threats by text...

Nigeria: Making kidnapping a capital offence puts victims at greater risk, says Amnesty

Amnesty International today expressed dismay at the decision by Nigeria’s Imo State House of Assembly to pass a bill allowing the death penalty to be imposed on those convicted of kidnapping or whose...

BBC Northern Ireland Spotlight programme shortlisted for Amnesty Media Award

BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme has been shortlisted for a prestigious Amnesty International Media Award. The programme, Prisoner B2970, told the shocking story of the death by suicide of...

Celebrated Northumberland author contributes to new Amnesty Children's rights's book

Northumberland’s award-winning Children's rights’s author David Almond is one of 14 well-known writers who has contributed to Amnesty International’s new anthology of Children's rights’s stories...