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Arms exports: Human rights still under threat from lax arms controls

Responding to the findings of the Select Committees on Arms Export Controls’ report Amnesty International's Arms Programme Director Oliver Sprague said: "We welcome the Select Committees’ call upon...

Honduras: Amnesty reveals photographic evidence of brutal police violence against peaceful protesters

Amnesty International today published a series of exclusive photos and testimonies revealing serious ill-treatment of peaceful protesters by police and military in Honduras’ capital, Tegucigalpa. The...

Tasers: Amnesty questions the 'alarming disparity' in use of Tasers across the UK

Responding to the number of times Northumbria police have used the Taser, Amnesty International Arms Programme Director Oliver Sprague said: “Since we don’t know how or when the Taser was used, it’s...

Tasers: Serious concerns remain about 'extremely dangerous weapons'

Responding to the publication of new Home Office figures showing an increased use of Taser weapons by police forces in England and Wales, Amnesty International UK arms campaigner Oliver Sprague said:...

Amnesty reveals one of the festival's strongest line-ups for Wednesday comedy gig

Amnesty International today revealed it’s near-complete line-up of great comedy names for the Stand Up For Freedom show at the Assembly Hall, at midnight on 19 August. One final, award-winning special...

Amnesty announces 'world's top intellectual coming to Belfast

Amnesty International has announced that one of the world’s leading intellectuals, Professor Noam Chomsky, will come to Belfast on 30 October to give the organisation’s annual lecture at the Ulster...

Mexico: Woman accused of kidnapping six agents named Amnesty prisoner of conscience

Amnesty International today [Tues 18 Aug] adopted 46-year-old Jacinta Marcial as a prisoner of conscience for being unfairly sentenced to 21 years in prison and demanded that the Mexican authorities...

Afghanistan: Journalists threatened by both government and Taleban in lead-up to elections

* Journalists from 13 Afghan provinces report government intimidation Ahead of the Afghan presidential elections (20 August), journalists from 13 provinces in Afghanistan have told Amnesty...

Amnesty campaigners in Northern Ireland: Amnesty: Aung San Suu Kyi trial a 'farce', verdict a 'sick joke'

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi’s immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International campaigners in Northern Ireland as "a...

Burma: Amnesty labels Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence as 'shameful'

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan as...