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'The taking of hostages is a grave human rights abuse and is totally unacceptable. It is an act which threatens the fundamental right to life, personal integrity and liberty, and is expressly...

Hamma Hammami, Abdeljabbar Madouri and Samir Taamallah appeared before the court on Saturday for a retrial after four years of living in hiding. In July 1999 they had been sentenced in absentia to...

Visitors to detention facilities are reporting that prisons are dangerously overcrowded and that prisoners lack adequate food and medicine and are not sheltered from severe winter conditions. Under...

The ruling held the mandatory imposition of the death penalty is unconstitutional, as it amounts to inhuman and degrading punishment. It was delivered on 2 April 2001 by the Eastern Caribbean Court of...

'Measures to prevent 'terrorism' can only be effective if they also guarantee and protect human rights. Security and human rights go hand in hand - and are not alternative options,' the organisation...

Mounir Ghaith, Abdelbasset Dali and Bechir Ben Zayed, three Tunisian nationals living abroad were arrested in Tunisia last summer. They have been denied basic rights during the judicial process...

'Of immediate concern is the mental health of the detainees - hunger strikes, self-harm and attempted suicides of detainees have obvious roots in extreme desperation. This is created by the combined...

'This is a landmark judgement. It is the first time that the court has awarded compensation to a rape victim, confirming that rape in custody constitutes torture ,' Amnesty International said. Amnesty...

'International and regional observers, even if they are allowed into Zimbabwe in the next week, would work best alongside local civil society observers who are experienced in detecting vote rigging,'...

Tracy Housel, who is widely believed to have received an unfair trial, will have been on death row in Georgia for 16 years on 7 February. He faces becoming the first British national to be executed in...