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UK: Famous Brighton illustrators draw crowds to Amnesty's new bookshop

Nick Sharratt, Children's rights’s author and illustrator of the famous Jacqueline Wilson books, and Chris Riddell, co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles series, will together launch the new...

Worldwide: Make Some Noise - Corinne Bailey Rae to release single from forthcoming album for Amnesty International

Corinne Bailey Rae is set to release the second single from the forthcoming Make Some Noise album for Amnesty International. Her version of John Lennon's 'I'm Losing You', from Lennon's 1980 album...

Amnesty Condemns Death Threats to Human Rights Defenders

Amnesty International deplores the death threats made to human rights defender Mark Thompson, director of NI victims group Relatives For Justice. Amnesty is calling for the threats to be fully...

Iraq: ‘Do not abandon us’ urge Iraqi refugees who served alongside British troops

Agencies Call on British Government to Take Urgent Action on Iraqi Refugees (London, April 16, 2007) – Three former Iraqi interpreters for the UK Army, who were forced to flee to Syria after receiving...

Iran: New Amnesty web appeal for young woman artist facing execution

Amnesty International UK today (Sunday 15 March) launched a new UK web appeal on behalf of a 20-year-old woman artist facing execution in Iran. The organisation is asking people to go to…

NI: Alan Johnston abduction - Northern Ireland campaigners join Amnesty appeal, one month on

Palestinian Authority must increase efforts to secure BBC reporter’s release Amnesty International supporters in Northern Ireland are sending ‘Urgent Action’ appeals on behalf of the abducted BBC...

Palestinian Authority: Alan Johnston Abduction - Amnesty appeal, one month on

Palestinian Authority must increase efforts to secure BBC reporter’s release Amnesty International supporters are sending ‘Urgent Action’ appeals on behalf of the abducted BBC television news reporter...

Egypt: New report condemns ‘War on Terror’s torture chamber’

UK must abandon attempt to do deals with Egypt on ‘no torture’ assurances Amnesty International has condemned Egypt’s record on torture and illegal detention and called on other countries to abandon...

USA: Guantánamo Bay - New report shows 80% of detainees in solitary confinement

In a new report published today (5 April), Amnesty International says that 80% of detainees at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are being held in solitary confinement, often in harsh...

Chad: Government must accept UN forces to protect civilians in East

Amnesty International today (4 April) called on the Chadian government to reverse its refusal to accept a United Nations force into its eastern region bordering Sudan, after at least 25 unarmed...