Faraj Ahmad Birqdar, a long-term prisoner of conscience, is reportedly being denied adequate medical care for serious injuries sustained as a result of torture ...
This report provides compelling evidence of the futility and injustice of trying to use the death penalty to suppress drug trafficking and abuse. Some 26 countries ...
This circular contains 11 cases, describing a range of violations suffered by those who work for human rights around the world. The cases are: China: Bao Ge, a ...
1. Former Yugoslavia: 'Disappeared ' must not be forgotten (includes photograph of woman lighting candle during vigil for the "disappeared" in Zagreb, Croatia). ...
In June 1995 AI issued information on the arrest of over 100 health professionals in 1980 following a strike called by the professional associations in April of ...
1. United Kingdom: Police restraints cause deaths (includes photograph of Joy Gardner). 2. France: Police guilty of illegal violence (includes photograph of Lucien ...
1. Germany: Police brutality on the increase. 2. India: Concern grows over deaths in custody. 3. Sierra Leone: Schoolchildren abducted by rebel forces. 4. Focus ...
Thousands of political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, continue to be held in Syria, most of them in total secrecy. Some have been held in this condition ...
1. Syria: Radical measures needed to improve appalling human rights record. 2. Brazil: Amnesty International's Secretary General raises concern on safety of key ...