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Six months on from issuing a new Criminal Procedure Law designed to reform China's criminal justice system, the Chinese authorities are still illegally holding detainees in custody and refusing them access to their lawyers and their families. Posted: 15 Jul 2013

Amnesty International has launched a new Chinese-language website containing research reports, articles and blog entries on the organisations research and activism around the world. Posted: 21 Jun 2013

Chinese mining companies operating in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) need to do more to prevent their operations from leading to human rights abuses, Amnesty International warned today in a new report. Posted: 19 Jun 2013

Ahead of their visit this week to China, Amnesty International has called on the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to raise concerns about human rights abuses in the country - including a continuing crackdown on freedom of expression and use of the death penalty. Posted: 24 May 2013

A Chinese woman who stabbed her husband to death after suffering months of sustained domestic violence should not be executed, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 23 Jan 2013

The reported death of a celebrated Uighur writer in a Chinese prison is a shameful indictment of the Chinese governments notion of justice which exposes the harsh conditions in prisons in China, Amnesty International said today as it condemned the death and the secrecy surrounding the case. Posted: 2 Jan 2013

Amnesty International has condemned news that Chen Kegui, the nephew of exiled blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, has received a sentence of three years and three months imprisonment from a Shangdong court in eastern China. Posted: 30 Nov 2012

Amnesty activists and leading members of the cultural world gathered at Anish Kapoors London studio to make a special Gangnam Style film in support of the artist, Ai Weiwei. Posted: 21 Nov 2012

A historic treaty to regulate the global arms trade has won the backing of an overwhelming majority of states today, in a move seen by Amnesty International as a potential victory for human rights worldwide. Posted: 7 Nov 2012

The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent womens rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, who has been sentenced to one and a half years in a labour camp, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Posted: 6 Nov 2012

The transition of power in China to a new generation of leaders gets underway with the start of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party on 8 November in Beijing. Activists are not hopeful the change will usher in a new respect for human rights. Posted: 5 Nov 2012

The Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown against dissidents ahead of the imminent transition of power in the country, Amnesty International warned today. Posted: 2 Nov 2012

The Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown against dissidents ahead of the imminent transition of power in the country, Amnesty International warned today. Posted: 2 Nov 2012

A wave of violent forced evictions, which has led to a number of deaths, is spreading across China as local authorities seek to offset huge debts by seizing and then selling off land in suspect deals with property developers, a new report by Amnesty International revealed today. Posted: 11 Oct 2012

The Olympic Games start in a weeks time and will see representatives of hundreds of different nations taking part. Amnesty Internationals annual report details the human rights situation in 155 different countries and provides a unique insight. Posted: 20 Jul 2012

In response to Dundee City Council 'withdrawal' of support for the Dalai Lama and lack of welcome by Scottish Government, Shabnum Mustapha, Programme Director for Amnesty International in Scotland, said: It is appalling and very worrying if Dundee City Council has withdrawn its support for the Dalai Lamas visit to its city due to pressure from the Chinese Government." Posted: 20 Jun 2012

The Chinese authorities must initiate a full and independent investigation into the death in hospital of a former prisoner of conscience, Amnesty International said today amid outrage at the case among China's activist community. Posted: 8 Jun 2012

Strong arms trade treaty needed as UN Security Council increasingly looks unfit for purpose Posted: 24 May 2012

Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to immediately renew the visa and press credentials of the expelled Al-Jazeera English China correspondent, Melissa Chan. Posted: 9 May 2012

A pledge by China that it will allow Chen Guangcheng to go abroad with his family so he can study seems empty as long as the Chinese state keeps the activists wider family in detention and retaliates against his supporters, Amnesty International said. Posted: 4 May 2012