Amnesty International News

Amnesty International has made a renewed call for the humane treatment of all detainees in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, following reports that captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit may be released in a prisoner exchange.

Police dig up body of victim killed in massacre in Maguindanao province, 24 November 2009.

At the invitation of Guerrero based Tlachinollan Human Rights Centre I had the inspiring opportunity to witness an historic event last Wed : Two indigenous women, both former Amnesty International prisoners of conscience left their communities once more to make a trip to a Mexican Jail.

Amnesty International has urged the Chinese authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Huang Qi, a human rights defender who worked with the victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

As the number of people living in poverty swell to over two billion, Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan makes a strong argument for human rights to be made central to development and eradication of poverty.

Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December.

The Court decided on Thursday to extend the current moratorium on executions, which was due to expire in January, and recommended abolishing the death penalty completely.

DHAKA: Amnesty International has urged Bangladesh not to execute five condemned convicts, former army officers, sentenced to death for the killing of country's founding president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Ohio's decision to introduce the new lethal injection procedures followed the state's failed attempt to execute Romell Broom on 15 September.

A military court in Istanbul sentenced the soldiers to three months and 10 days' imprisonment on 13 November for the "intentional wounding" of Mehmet Bal in June 2008.

Chinese authorities must stop the harassment and arbitrary detention of dozens of human rights lawyers and activists who were targeted during US President Obama's visit to the country earlier this week, Amnesty International said on Friday.

The head of Amnesty International, Irene Khan, says the Australian government should close its immigration detention center on Christmas Island.

The Dow Jones Company-owned Far Eastern Economic Review magazine and its editor Hugo Restal had published an article critical of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his father, former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

Two Azerbaijani bloggers jailed after criticizing the country's government on the internet have been adopted as prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International.

Fakhri 'Anani, a 48-year-old, died in hospital on Saturday, two days after reportedly being attacked by police officers outside his home in the southern city of Ma'an. Sadem Abdul Mutelib al-Saoud, a street vendor in his 20s, died on 8 November after spending around three weeks in a coma; he had allegedly been beaten with batons on the head while ...

Australia must abolish policies that discriminate against Aborigines in its quest to lift its indigenous population out of Third World poverty, the head of an international human rights group said Wednesday.

A human rights watchdog has criticised the Egyptian government for not doing enough to ensure the safety of thousands of Cairo slum-dwellers. Amnesty International says Egypt failed to fully investigate a deadly rockslide in the Duwayqa area in September 2008.

About 200 protesters snaked around downtown sidewalks yesterday waving signs with pictures of Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr and demanding the government, "Bring Omar home." The chant continued as the group gathered in Churchill Square to listen to speakers, poets and musicians argue that Khadr's rights have been gravely violated.

The dancer called police to his home because he feared he was being robbed, only to end up being killed by the officers from whom he had sought help, Amnesty International said, offering one example of deadly police violence in Mozambique.

Hundreds of Amnesty International activists have gathered in Boston for a regional human rights conference that will include a tribute to a Libyan official who died in custody after advocating democracy.