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I must admit that my gut reaction was one of discomfort: would we manifest our solidarity with the victims of CIA waterboarding with a parody of this torture in a Belfast swimming pool? I think my unease comes down to this. The...

Well done and thank you to all Amnesty's members and supporters locally, who have helped through the years to keep up the pressure in the case of Scot, Kenny Richey, who has just been released from death row in Ohio after 21 years in...

Kenny Richey , the Scottish man who was on death row for nearly 21 years is due to be released tonight! Hed already won his main appeal and in a typical American legal deal, he is now pleading no contest to reduced charges of...

Billy Briggs MICHAEL TIGHE was only 17 when he died in a hail of police bullets in a barn. But 25 years on his elderly parents are still trying to find out the full circumstances surrounding their son’s death and why he was targeted by...

Amnesty has been at the forefront of campaigning against violence against women over recent years and its through this work that some of the most harrowing tales of human rights abuses reach our desks. This week its been the issue of...