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Azerbaijani campaigner Emin Milli tells Amnesty International how his blogs revealing government abuse landed him in jail for 16 months.
Amnesty International hears from journalists and bloggers across the world who face abuse and even imprisonment while trying to do their job.
Some 250 Roma families were forcibly evicted from Belgrade's Belvil settlement despite a lack of proper consultation.
A new Amnesty International report exposes widespread discrimination against Muslims in Western Europe
A Libyan man subjected to rendition in 2004 has filed a civil claim against former UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and other officials.
Just weeks before Azerbaijan's capital Baku hosts the Eurovision, journalists who tried to film illegal house demolitions were violently assaulted by police.
Belarusian opposition presidential candidate Andrei Sannikau was among two prisoners of conscience released over the weekend.
The Roma, numbering between 10 and 12 million people, are one of Europe’s largest and most disadvantaged minorities.
New government measures allow police to round up and detain irregular migrants and asylum-seekers, including those suspected of carrying infectious diseases such as HIV.
Nearly two decades after the end of the war government must ensure justice, truth and reparation for hundreds of survivors of wartime sexual violence.
Government's urged to act as European Parliament prepares report on the illegal transfer, disappearance, and torture of detainees.
Azerbaijani authorities must investigate claims that musicians were beaten in custody after insulting President Aliyev's mother during a performance.
Two men convicted of carrying out a deadly metro bombing last year in Minsk have been executed following an unfair trial.
Amnesty International has submitted a report to the Spanish government outlining the key human rights challenges that the country faces.
A ship en route from the USA to Egypt is carrying arms which could be used by Egyptian security forces to commit human rights violations.
An investigative journalist in Azerbaijan has become the victim of a smear campaign after investigating government corruption.
Authorities urged to launch an immediate investigation into the beating of the four activists by police officers during and after the protest in Baku.
In Moldova, four local councils have moved to ban demonstrations by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people.
Russia’s next president must place human rights at the heart of their political agenda.
The well-known Spanish investigating judge Baltasar Garzón has been cleared of charges of abuse of power, but crimes remain unpunished.