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*Posted on behalf of Frances* Amnesty International welcomes the Superior Court's decision to rule in favour of Jordan Brown. 13 year old Jordan Brown is charged with committing murder when 11 years old. If tried in an adult court and...
A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat, as Monty Python’s Eric Idle once said . And I think I know what he means. So, when former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf pops up on TV to talk about how as a national leader you need...
Governor Pat Quinn’s decision to abolish the death penalty across Illinois couldn’t have come a moment too soon. Particularly for the 15 men who were on death row across the US state. The mid-western state – for which President Obama...
Amnesty has been campaigning for Eynulla Fətullayev , a wrongly-imprisoned newspaper editor from Azerbaijan, for some time now. Today his father – who has received death threats after campaigning for his son’s release issued an...
Highlights Detentions Continue as Police Remain on High Alert over Protest Calls : With anonymous online postings calling for a third round of “Jasmine Revolution” protests this past weekend, police continued to detain and disappear...