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UK Working Group on Arms Press Release The UK Working Group on Arms (1) today welcomes the Quadripartite Committee’s report which warns that UK legislation is struggling to deal with an increasingly...
‘Travesty of justice’ condemned and UK urged to speak out Responding to today’s news that the UK government will make representations for the return to Britain of five UK residents imprisoned at the...
Amnesty International has made an appeal for all Taleban-held hostages in Afghanistan to be immediately and unconditionally released after the organisation made direct contact with members of the...
Sheffield man appeals for his brother to be spared hanging Amnesty International has today called for death sentences against two Kurdish cousins in Iran to be commuted as it issued an “urgent action”...
Amnesty International welcomed UN Security Council resolution for strengthened peacekeeping force into Darfur Amnesty International today (1 August) welcomed last night's unanimous vote by the UN...
On 30 July 2007 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales gave judgment in an important test case concerning the appeals of three Algerian men against their deportation to Algeria on “national security...
Amnesty International announces the launch of its Edinburgh Festival programme today (30 July) with the release of the first in a series of Festival video podcasts (vodcasts) and podcasts. Free to...
Accused’s lawyer has survived an attempt on his life; family forced to flee Younis Masih, a Pakistani Christian, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. His family have been threatened...
Amnesty International today condemned the UK government's proposal to extend the period for which people can be detained by the police under terrorism legislation to 56 days. Nicola Duckworth...
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who have organised and demonstrated against human rights abuses, forced evictions and food shortages in Zimbabwe have been subjected to...