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Execution called off just hours before prisoner was due to die in the lethal injection chamber

‘Roulette wheel’ case just one of hundreds where no-one has been brought to justice

Amnesty International has repeated its call to the Irish Government to request a re-opening of the landmark European Court of Human Rights 1978 judgement in Ireland v UK involving the tort

‘This sentence is not going to affect my determination to continue working on human rights issues’ - Maryam Al-Khawaja

Despite decades of mental illness, Scott Panetti set to be executed at 6pm local time on Wednesday

Threats and killings, coupled with the weak implementation of flawed legislation, are scuppering the Colombian government’s promise to return millions of hectares of land illegally snatched f

Amnesty International and other leading charities - including the Refugee Council, Oxfam and Save the Children - have written to Prime Minister David Cameron