Rights group Amnesty International appealed Tuesday for the immediate release of Tunisian journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, who is facing jail on charges that ...
Amnesty International called for Bangladesh to ensure accountability over its February mutiny and said that dozens if not hundreds suspected of involvement suffered ...
Amnesty International on Friday urged Tehran to lift the death sentence given to a monarchist arrested in the protests following Iran's disputed presidential election. Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani, who belongs to the Kingdom Assembly of Iran, was among scores of people arrested ...
Iran sentences accused member of exiled opposition group to death, says Amnesty International Iran has sentenced an accused member of an exiled opposition group to death, Amnesty International said Friday in an appeal for Tehran to rescind the ruling. Mohammad Reza Ali ...
Tens of thousands of women who fled unrest in Darfur face the daily threat or rape and violence in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad, Amnesty International said Wednesday. "Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on ...
Sierra Leone's government defended itself on Friday against a report saying it had one of the world's highest maternal death rates, arguing it had succeeded in reducing the number in recent years. The government statement followed a recent report from rights group ...
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday contested as outdated an Amnesty International report saying that one in eight women risks death during childbirth or pregnancy. The west African nation's top medical officer, Kizito Dawo, told journalists that Amnesty's figures were "erroneous and ...
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Thursday contested as outdated an Amnesty International report saying that one in eight women risks death during childbirth or pregnancy. The west African nation's top medical officer, Kizito Dawo, told journalists that Amnesty's figures were "erroneous and ...
Amnesty International says Indian woman should be compensated for 3 years in prison An Indian market vendor who was wrongly convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison deserves compensation for the time she was locked away, Amnesty International said Thursday. ...
The authorities in Serbia have failed to protect human rights and gay activists, Amnesty International said Monday ahead of the first gay pride march in Belgrade for nine years. "The Serbian authorities are obliged to protect the rights of all people to ...
Amnesty International: Japan executes mentally ill prisoners, death row drives some insane Japan executes mentally ill prisoners, some of whom are driven insane by harsh treatment while on death row, according to a report issued Thursday by Amnesty International. Prisoners given the ...
Amnesty International on Friday called on the Sudanese government to withdraw the charges against a woman journalist who risks 40 lashes for wearing trousers. As a court in Khartoum prepares to resume the trial of Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, Amnesty International said the ...
