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Amnesty International calls upon all Members of Parliament in Bangladesh to oppose the bill to sanction torture and unlawful killings carried out by army personnel over the last few months. The bill...

Listening to the US Secretary of State address the World Economic Forum, Irene Khan voiced the concern of many civil society groups, that the humanitarian situation in Iraq is extremely fragile after...

Eva Galabru is being sued for 'disinformation', a charge that carries a maximum three year prison sentence. She has been accused of spreading 'false information' after a statement from Global Witness...

The shooting took place while Fazal Wahab Wahab, a resident of Mingora (district of Swat) in the North West Frontier of Pakistan was in a shop. The shop keeper and his assistant were also killed in...

'The persistence of torture and ill-treatment in the Philippines highlights a serious discrepancy between the law and its application within the criminal justice system,' Amnesty International said...

The 45-page report, 'Doing Business in Russia', part of the human rights organisation's ongoing campaign on Russia is highly critical of widespread corruption in the various linkages between companies...

It appears that the most recent wave of arrests is part of a strategy by the Zimbabwean authorities to undermine and stifle public protest while the world's attention is focused on the country during...

The report, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Police allegedly ill-treat members of ethnic minorities (AI Index EUR 65/001/2003) details six cases of alleged ill-treatment by police officers....

'These deaths which happened within two weeks of one another, are the first to have occurred on an aircraft during forcible deportation from French territory since 1991, and for that reason alone...

Mr Pasko, who had served two-thirds of a four-year sentence on treason charges in a prison colony in the Russian Far East, was arrested and sentenced solely for exercising his basic human right to...