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'Re-education Through Labour' - detention without charge, trial or judicial review for up to four years – should be abolished, said Amnesty International today in an open letter to the Chinese...

Amnesty International today launched an urgent appeal for Ali Mahin Torabi, convicted of a murder committed when he was 16 years old and now at risk of imminent execution. Now aged 21, he is being...

Protecting victims must be ‘put at the heart’ of stamping out sex trade, says Amnesty Amnesty International has today called for the protection of the victims of sex trafficking to be “put at the...

Amnesty International today urged the Iranian authorities to provide immediate medical treatment for jailed trade union leader Mansour Ossanlu, who has been told he will go blind unless action is...

150,000 in refugee camps, families of 10 share a single room, punishments for building a wall Amnesty International is calling for an end to discrimination against Lebanon’s 300,000 refugees today, as...

Local Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s Groups are launching a campaign calling for Glasgow City Council to make a Freedom of the City award to the leader of Burma’s...

Three “exonerees” who served 62 years between them speak out, including man sentenced to death for killing man later found alive Three men sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit this...

Amnesty International today officially launched a new education resource to inspire, inform and challenge young people to make their minds up about controversial human rights issues. The resource...

Four Tibetan Children's rights aged 15 years, detained since 7 September in Gansu province, are at grave risk of torture and mistreatment on suspicion of writing pro-Tibetan independence slogans, said...

Amnesty International has released new recordings of classic John Lennon tracks by artists from all over the world in a ‘digital box set’ to raise awareness of the ongoing human rights crisis in the...