‘It’s an outrage that a young woman is being locked up simply for peacefully having her say about how women are discriminated against in Iran’

The authorities in Burkina Faso must rein in the security forces that have used excessive force to crack down on peaceful anti-government protests, Amnesty International said today.

Spoof sales agents showing off thumbscrews and electro-shock handcuffs outside Liverpool Street Station

Country hit by wave of door-to-door ‘manhunts’ and abductions - abductees describe torture at hands of masked captors

‘British officials have got their paw prints all over this case’ - Kate Allen

The death sentence handed down today for a leading opposition figure in Bangladesh for war crimes will not bring justice to the millions of victims of the independence war, Amnesty International sa

‘Convicting Nabeel Rajab would be a terrible injustice’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui

Women can face 50 year jail term for suffering a miscarriage in El Salvador warn Amnesty

‘Qatar’s human rights record has been under the spotlight like never before and it hasn’t been a pretty sight’ - Allan Hogarth