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Tasers: MET Police deployment of tasers set to begin amid storm of international controversy

Amnesty International today (7 December) expressed concern at the ongoing pilot initiative for wider deployment of Taser stun guns being carried out by the Home Office, as London’s Metropolitan Police...

Amnesty reacts with dismay to the deployment of tasers

Amnesty International has reacted with dismay to the news that the PSNI are planning to introduce Tasers to Northern Ireland early next year. The organisation has condemned the Chief Constable Sir...

Northern Ireland: Amnesty rejects pre-charge detention plans

No extension to pre-charge detention limits for terrorism suspects is acceptable, said Amnesty today (6 December) as the organisation reacted to Home Office proposals to raise the limit to 42 days...

UK: No extension to pre-charge detention limits is acceptable, says Amnesty

No extension to pre-charge detention limits for terrorism suspects is acceptable, said Amnesty today (6 December) as the organisation reacted to Home Office proposals to raise the limit to 42 days...

Guantanamo: US supreme court should uphold rule of law in new case

Later today the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in relation to Guantánamo detentions on whether the US courts have been unlawfully stripped of jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus...

The Philippines: human rights situation

Amnesty International UK Media Briefing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s UK visit, 5-6 December 2007 Under President Arroyo’s administration, there have been political killings and enforced...

UK: the death of Jean Charles De Menezes: Coroner's inquest must go ahead

Amnesty International today called for the coroner’s inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes to be resumed without further delay, and for the inquest to be given a wide enough scope to...

Saudi Arabia: call for 'gang rape' lawyer to be spared punishment

Amnesty International has today called for disciplinary measures against a Saudi Arabian lawyer who has defended a rape victim in the country to be dropped. Abdul Rahman al-Lahem has been summoned to...

Scotland: Amnesty International and Lothian & Borders police join forces to tackle human trafficking

Human trafficking, the modern day form of slavery, is taking place here in Scotland with mostly Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights being trafficked into...

USA: 65-year-old faces execution despite national 'moratorium' and DNA tests doubt

Thomas Arthur set for 6 December execution A man in the state of Alabama in the United States is facing execution this week (Thursday 6 December) despite an unofficial ‘moratorium’ on executions in...