Two female editors at a national newspaper in Sri Lanka, Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq, have received death threats. The founder and former Editor-in-Chief ...
British national Akmal Shaikh, who is believed to be mentally ill, has been sentenced to death in China for drug-smuggling. He has now lost his appeal, and could ...
A Chinese man, pro-democracy activist Zhou Yongjun, who has been living in the USA since 1992, is about to be put on trial in Sichuan province, on a politically ...
Amnesty International today expressed dismay at Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s invitation to Sudanese President Omar al Bashir to attend the special ...
Amnesty International's Secretary General has called on world leaders and policy makers toshift the debate on poverty from economics to addressing the humanrights ...
(Kampala, October 15, 2009) – The draft “Anti-Homosexuality Bill” introduced on October 14, 2009 in Uganda’s parliament would violate human rights and should be ...