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Burma: Prisoner releases welcomed, but over a thousand still held

Amnesty International Asia Program Deputy Director Catherine Baber said: 'We are happy to hear of the release of prisoners of conscience, many of whom have been imprisoned for more than a decade....

Iraq: Targeting of diplomats by armed groups a worrying new trend, says Amnesty International

The attacks on Arab and foreign diplomats in recent days appear to represent a new and worrying phase in the campaign by armed groups opposed to the Iraqi government and the presence of US and other...

Sri Lanka: President urged to prevent return to death penalty after 29-year moratorium

Sri Lanka's Justice Ministry and the Attorney General have recently recommended that three people convicted in 1999 for a notorious abduction and killing should be executed. The Sri Lankan prisons...

UK gunrunners fuelling killings, mass rape and torture in Democratic Republic of Congo

According to documents and witness statements obtained by Amnesty International, six flights of arms from Albanian company MEICO, took place from Tirana to Kigali in planeloads each carrying over 40...

Scotland: MSPs and Scottish footballers team up to score a goal for human rights

Mark Ballard, Kenny MacAskill, Frank McAveety and Tommy Sheridan, Members of the Scottish Parliament, will lead a team in a friendly football match against a team of Burmese exiles at 9.30am today...

Australia: Detention regime in breach of international human rights

In launching its report Australia: The impact of indefinite detention - the case to change Australia's mandatory detention regime , Amnesty International called on the Australian Government, as a...

Zimbabwe: More deaths while mass evictions continue unabated

Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme, said: "Over the last 48 hours Porta Farm, a settlement of at least 10,000 people, has been obliterated. "People have watched...

EU: Deliver on human rights – Amnesty's appeal to the UK Presidency of the EU

Amnesty International says its human rights proposals to the UK Presidency, released today in Brussels and London, add up to an ambitious program that would strengthen the EU's leading role on human...

Iran: Man sentenced to have eyes gouged out

The Iranian Supreme Court rejected an appeal earlier this month and ordered that the punishment should be carried out. It may now be inflicted at any time and Amnesty International has issued an â€...

Amnesty International steps up campaign against torture in 'war on terror'

In recent days, Amnesty International has campaigned on behalf of a 19-year-old Uzbekistani facing execution despite strong indications that he was brutally beaten into making a murder confession; a...