Pakistan is urged to end secret detention and reveal the fate of hundreds of disappeared people believed abducted and held by security agencies.

The proposed new law allows for violations of human rights such as freedom from arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment.

US forces are set to transfer detainees from Bagram prison to the Afghan government, prompting fears that they may be at risk of torture.

Japan has hanged three men in the country's first executions in almost two years, joining the minority of countries worldwide that are still executing.

After four decades awaiting execution, a recent court development offers hope of retrial for death row prisoner Masaru Okunishi.

Amnesty International has called for greater accountability for civilian casualties, after a US soldier killed 16 people in Kandahar province.

Pakistan's government has failed to protect religious minorities from systematic campaigns of violence and vilification.

Border-crossers who are sent back are at grave risk of torture, forced labour, imprisonment in political prison camps and execution.

Asylum seekers placed in long-term detention in Australia have told Amnesty International how the practice traumatizes them and harms their mental health.