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Detainee held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre, New York, for an immigration violation. In a new 40-page report released today, Amnesty International shows that a significant number of people...

On the basis of previous experience in Zimbabwe, the organisation is concerned that there is a risk of attacks on perceived supporters of the opposition and of violence around any protests about the...

'The Dialogue provides an opportunity not only to end the fighting in the DRC but also to set up a framework in which the rule of law can be established and in which human rights may be protected,' it...

The first case involves Tawfiq al-Hindi, a leading member of the unauthorized Lebanese Forces party and Antoine Bassil, Elie Kerouz, and Salman Samaha as well as others tried in absentia, as co...

'Since Digna Ochoa's death, leaks by the PGJDF to the media appearing to give greater weight to a non-political motive for the crime, have consistently undermined the credibility of the investigation'...

Amnesty International UK said: 'The clemency board's decision was a travesty of justice. Even those that support the death penalty would concede that executing a brain-damaged man whose trial was...

The organisation has received information of a pattern of mass arbitrary detention of hundreds of polling agents belonging to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Those arrested also...

'In conflicts, during political instability, in state custody and in the home and community, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's physical, mental and sexual integrity remain...

Irene Khan welcomed the ongoing dialogue and assurances from the Minister that he takes Amnesty International's interventions very seriously. Ms Khan urged the Minister to review the policy of...

Mauritius, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Cyprus have ratified in the last three days becoming the 53rd, 54th and 55th states respectively to have ratified the Rome Statute. Amnesty...