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UK: Seven held on security grounds: Reaction

“Detainees must be allowed to properly challenge the grounds for their deportation including the evidence on which the Home Secretary has made his decision to deport them. This is particularly...

UK Terrorism Bill: Extension of detention is internment in all but name

Amnesty International Senior Director for Regional Programmes said: "While we need to look at the proposals in depth, what is immediately striking is the proposed extension of detention without charge...

Iraq: Amnesty International strongly condemns the latest suicide bomb attack

A suicide bomber drew scores of people to his van with promises of work and then detonated a bomb in al-'Uruba Square in al-Kadhimiya, a predominantly Shi'a district of Baghdad. In addition to the...

UN Summit: Amnesty condemns betrayal of human rights

The proposed text on the Human Rights Council is woefully inadequate in failing to call for minimum elements essential for an improved and more authoritative human rights body. It offers people around...

UK: Amnesty hosts special screening of Bullet Boy

Amnesty International UK will host a special screening of the acclaimed film 'Bullet Boy' (cert 15) on Tuesday 18 October 2005 as part of its new 'Behind The Screen' film screenings at its east London...

UK and Israel/Occupied Territories: Amnesty deplores failure to arrest Israeli war crimes suspect

A warrant for the general's arrest for alleged war crimes had been issued by an English court the previous day. The organisation is now calling on the UK authorities to urge Interpol to circulate the...

Burma (Burma): New report reveals tens of thousands facing forced labour, beatings and theft

"Everything is upside down. People's properties and livelihoods are destroyed. They are so stressed, they have become like homeless beggars on the road. I am so angry about what the military is doing...

Chad-Cameroon Pipeline: New report accuses oil companies and governments of secretly contracting out of human rights

Andrea Shemberg, legal advisor to Amnesty International UK, said:

India: Amnesty calls on India to abolish the death penalty ahead of summit meeting in New Delhi

In the lead-up to the summit Amnesty International has sent a briefing paper to the British Government which currently holds the Presidency of the EU. The briefing raises concerns in relation to the...

UN Reform: Small number of countries holding UN world summit hostage on human rights, security and poverty

These governments have thrown negotiations on the final outcome text into crisis just days away from the biggest meeting of world leaders in history on September 14-16 in New York. The three...