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India must investigate abduction of anti-Vedanta activists

Amnesty International is calling on the Indian authorities urgently to investigate the armed abduction of two indigenous leaders, who were on their way to campaign against the bauxite mine project...

Iran: Televised 'confession' in stoning case condemned

Amnesty International has condemned the TV “confession” of an Iranian woman last night, in which Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two awaiting execution by stoning for adultery...

Comedians V Critics Football Match: Fur flies as captains go head to head

Comedian Rob Rouse and critic Edd McCracken went head to head for the cameras today (11 August) ahead of Sunday’s comedians vs critics football match at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. After some...

Iran: Heavy sentences against Baha'i leaders condemned

Trial was a ‘parody’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of seven members of Iran's Baha’i religious minority to 20 years in jail on a series of politically...

Afghan civilian deaths: Taleban should be prosecuted for war crimes

The Taleban and other insurgent groups should be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said today, following the release of a United Nations report showing a rise in...

Comedians back new Amnesty Edinburgh festival campaign for jailed Burmese comic

Amnesty International today asked comedians and audiences at the Edinburgh Festival to get behind a new campaign for a comedian jailed for 35 years for criticising the government. Zarganar, aged 49...

Mexico: Decision to prosecute indigenous human rights defender condemned

Amnesty International has condemned the Mexican authorities’ decision to pursue charges against human rights defender Raúl Hernández for a murder he did not commit, after a state prosecutor today...

Georgian government must secure future for displaced, says new Amnesty report

The Georgian authorities must do more than the bare minimum to provide adequate housing, employment and access to health care to those displaced in conflicts in the 1990s and the war with Russia in...

Iraq: Danny Fitzsimons Case

Responding to a new televised appeal to David Cameron made by Danny Fitzsimons, the British security contractor detained in Iraq and awaiting trial for murder, Amnesty International UK Campaigns...

Rwanda: Murders, bogus arrests and media closures make for climate of fear in run up to election

Amnesty International today strongly condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run up to the presidential elections on this coming Monday, August 9. The murder of a journalist and an...