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Amnesty International has repeatedly raised its concern with the Turkish Government that the imprisonment of people in solitary confinement or small group isolation may amount to cruel, inhuman or...

The appeal, on behalf of Amnesty International's one million members, is in response to the Thai government's recent announcement that it would 'speed up the execution of drug convicts'. While...

If the CHR is to live up to its role as the world's primary human rights body it must protect human rights on their merits rather than protect the narrow self-interests of the governments that make up...

The four were reportedly among eight farmers' representatives from Gaoyang, who planned to go to Beijing in early March to present a petition to the government, complaining that local officials had...

The nine men, charged with carrying out a series of politically-motivated bombings in March and April 1998. They were tried two years ago before military judges in the State Security Court, whose...

Badaruddin Ismail, a member of leading human rights organisation Suaram, had been assisting the families of the victims of arbitrary arrest and documenting an inquiry into police brutality. No reasons...

Badaruddin Ismail, a member of leading human rights organisation Suaram, had been assisting the families of the victims of {arbitrary arrest} and documenting an inquiry into police brutality. No...

'While Texas has drawn worldwide attention for the sheer number of executions, its smaller neighbour has passed death sentences, and is currently carrying them out, at a greater rate,' the...

The Presidential Decree issued on 23 April 2001 followed a recommendation from Indonesia's parliament to establish ad hoc Human Rights Courts on East Timor and on the 1984 Tanjung Priok case in which...

'The repeated accusations brought against the Mauritian authorities by individuals who claim that their right to be free from torture and ill-treatment and their right to be given a fair trial have...