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Saudi Arabia: Call for crucifixion execution to be halted

Amnesty International has issued an urgent appeal to the Saudi Arabian authorities calling for the intended execution and crucifixion of a 22-year-old man to be halted. Saudi Arabia's Court of...

Trafigura case: Authorities must ensure compensation reaches victims

Amnesty International today urged the authorities in Côte d’Ivoire to ensure that £27 million compensation paid by the oil trading company Trafigura to victims of one of the worst toxic dumping...

Women's rights's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights: Mass lobby of parliament to demand protection

Hundreds of activists from Amnesty International and Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s sector organisations will descend on Parliament today [4 Nov] to lobby their MPs for...

USA: Time running out for man facing execution after jurors used bible to decide his fate

‘And if he smite him with an instrument of iron … the murderer shall surely be put to death’ - Biblical passage relied on by jurors ‘The fact that a man’s life hangs by a thread because of scripture...

Nigeria: River state government set to demolish more homes

Amnesty International has warned hundreds of people – including many Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights – may be left homeless if plans to demolish their...

Spain: Allegations of torture must be investigated, says new Amnesty report

People alleging torture and other ill-treatment in Spain have been denied justice due to a lack of political will from the Spanish authorities to confront such abuses by security forces, Amnesty...

Amnesty International and Alice Temperley launch limited-edition Amnesty scented candle

“It is Better to Light a Candle than Curse the Darkness” London, Autumn/ Winter 2009 - Long-time Amnesty International supporter Alice Temperley has partnered with the human rights organisation to...

Death Penalty: Gregory Campbell is wrong to defend cruelty of Iran, Saudi Arabia and China

Amnesty International today strongly criticised a call made by Gregory Campbell MP for the use of the death penalty in the UK and internationally. Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Programme...

Iran: Overturn British embassy worker sentence, says Amnesty

Amnesty International today (30 October) urged the Iranian authorities to overturn the reported four-year prison sentence imposed on a British embassy worker. Hossein Rassam, the chief political...

Noam Chomsky Belfast lecture warns of right-wing threat and urges popular action to fight poverty

Professor Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is expected to warn that the far-right may take advantage of growing inequality and will urge people to organise against poverty, as...