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Libya: two British businessmen in secret detention after officials raid house in Tripoli

Amnesty International is calling on the Libyan authorities to immediately reveal the whereabouts of four men - including two British nationals - who are being held in secret after being arrested in...

Mexico must urgently investigate mass grave

Amnesty International today urged the Mexican authorities to conduct a full, independent and effective investigation into the deaths of 59 people, whose bodies were found in mass graves yesterday on a...

Serbia: Roma housed in metal containers and segregated after forced evictions - New report

Roma families in Serbia have been left housed in metal containers in segregated settlements, or returned to poverty and inadequate housing in southern Serbia, following an increasing series of forced...

Belfast pupil shortlisted for national Amnesty writing award

Natasha Kelly in running for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year A Belfast pupil was shortlisted today for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Natasha Kelly, 11...

Goldstone: Israel's 'cynical' efforts to avoid accountability for Gaza war crimes must be rejected

Recent Israeli government calls for the UN to retract the 2009 report of its Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict are a cynical attempt to avoid accountability for war crimes and deny both...

Italy violated torture ban during Tunisia deportation

Italy’s human rights record has been dealt another blow, Amnesty International said today, after the European Court of Human Rights ruled it had violated the ban on torture and other cruel, inhuman or...

Lisburn pupil shortlisted for UK Amnesty writing award

Christina Cargill in running for Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year A Lisburn pupil was shortlisted today for Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year award. Christina...

Zimbabwe: Mass grave bodies must be exhumed by forensic experts

Hundreds of bodies found in a mass grave in Zimbabwe may never be identified unless professional forensic experts carry out the exhumations, Amnesty International warned today. Bodies recently...

Arms: House of Commons committee report slams government failures

NGOs call on Government to respond to report's findings The Government must urgently respond to calls for a thorough and transparent review of all arms export licences to the Middle East and North...

China: Government wages campaign of harassment against lawyers

The Chinese government is waging a campaign of harassment and intimidation of lawyers, to stop them defending the dozens of activists and political critics rounded up by the authorities in the last...