The decision by China’s Supreme People’s Court to overturn the death sentence of a woman convicted of killing her husband after suffering months of domestic abuse, highlights the urgent

‘Today’s ruling is a small step to redressing the injustice done to Meriam’ - Sarah Jackson

‘Journalists are being locked up and branded criminals or ‘terrorists’ simply for doing their job’ - Philip Luther

Case is ‘a warning to all potential protesters that street demonstrations are a ticket to prison’ - John Dalhuisen

There appears to be no end in sight to violations of a range of human rights one month after martial law was declared in Thailand, Amnesty International warned today.

‘There is no government in Benghazi’ - Hussein Abdelmajid Abu Baker al-Barasi, whose house has been shelled on three separate occasions

The apparent lynching of a Roma teenager in a Paris suburb that left him in a coma is just one of several recent alleged hate crimes against minorities that demand thorough investigations and not j

On Saturday 21 June the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London will be holding an event to discuss the conflict in Syria.