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China must end land grabs, amid protests over death in custody

Amnesty International today called on the Chinese authorities to end violent and illegal land grabs, as protests by villagers in the southern province of Guangdong continued following the death in...

Jailed Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad is a prisoner of conscience who should be released

Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of the imprisoned Egyptian blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad and criticised Egypt’s military rulers for a continuing pattern of abuse after his...

Nepal: Protect Nepalese migrants from false promises of work abroad

Rogue Nepalese recruitment agencies are trafficking Nepalese for exploitation and forced labour in the Gulf States and Malaysia, Amnesty International said today in a new report, as it called on the...

Record number of Palestinians displaced by demolitions, as 'Quartet' continues to talk

Israeli authorities have stepped up unlawful demolitions in the West Bank - including East Jerusalem - over the past year, displacing a record number of Palestinian families from their homes, an...

Briefing: Bahrain

Amnesty international UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “David Cameron’s meeting with King Hamad Al-Khalifa today is an opportunity for the Prime Minister to make it clear that Bahrain still has...

Saudi Arabia: beheading of woman for 'witchcraft and sorcery' is deeply shocking

The beheading of a woman convicted of “witchcraft and sorcery” is deeply shocking and highlights the urgent need for a halt in executions in Saudi Arabia, Amnesty International said today. The...

Forthcoming 76-song Bob Dylan tribute album streaming on Facebook for Human Rights Day

*Pre-orders begin today for four-CD collection *Studio footage of Ke$ha, Pete Townshend and We Are Augustines posted at www.RollingStone.com To mark International Human…

Amnesty appoints new Senior Director of Campaigns and Communications

Amnesty International today announced the appointment of Thomas Schultz-Jagow to the newly-created post of Senior Director of Campaigns and Communications, based at the organisation’s International...

Romania must come clean over secret CIA prisons

The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centres on its territory, Amnesty International said today, after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a...

Zimbabwe: detained media monitoring activists are 'prisoners of conscience'

Amnesty International said today it considers three Zimbabwean human rights activists arrested this week to be “prisoners of conscience” and called for their immediate and unconditional release. The...