Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to ensure that freedom to gather peacefully is assured during ’Ashoura religious celebrations this month.
Amnesty International has condemned the kidnapping and killing of Luis Francisco Cuéllar Carvajal, Governor of the Colombian department of Caquetá in the south of the country.
Charged with 'inciting subversion of state power', the scholar is one of hundreds of signatories of Charter 08, a proposal for political reform in China.
Director of the UN’s Millennium Campaign for the past six years, and
the Chief Executive of ActionAid before that, Salil Shetty will take up his new post in June 2010.
Amnesty International has called for the release of an Iranian student
leader whose arrest and detention have inspired men to cover their hair
in an online solidarity photo campaign.
An attempt to defraud victims of the Trafigura toxic waste dump
disaster out of $45 million must be stopped, Amnesty International said
on Friday in an open letter.
