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Amnesty International’s twenty years with Charles Taylor

As Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years, Amnesty International looks at key dates in the organisation’s work on the former president.

Bahrain urged to free remaining prisoners of conscience

Despite the release on bail of a prominent Bahraini human rights defender, many prisoners of conscience remain behind bars.

Pakistan: Still no justice a year on from journalist’s killing

Last year's killing of Saleem Shahzad highlighted the perils faced by journalists in Pakistan.

Livewire – Amnesty International's blog

Despatch from Aleppo: Victims of Syria’s brutal crackdown
‘Not what we fought for’: Torture in Libya

'We’re no longer voiceless', protesters tell Shell

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Amnesty International Report 2012
Our comprehensive annual review of the state of human rights worldwide

"I was in Angola, but Angola wasn't in me"
Writer Robert King on how he got through 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola Prison

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Two of the remaining Angola 3 are still in long term isolation without any evidence to support the need to hold them separately from other prisoners.

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