A landowner attempting to drive an Indigenous community off their ancestral land in north-western Argentina has attacked them, leaving one man shot dead and four ...
Mehdi Karroubi, a 72-year-old male cleric who was a candidate in June's disputed presidential election in Iran, is facing criminal charges in relation to his reporting ...
Amnesty International submits this briefing for consideration by the Committee against Torture (the Committee). The document summarises some of Amnesty International ...
On the eve of Nigeria’s election to the United Nations (UN) Security Council as a non-permanent member, Amnesty International calls on the Nigerian government to ...
A 35-year old Iranian woman who had been due to be put to death on 11 October has received a stay of execution. She was convicted of murdering her 74-year-old husband ...
President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has allowed the deadline for clemency for Vasily Yuzepchuk to pass. On 12 October, the UN Human Rights Committee registered Vasily ...
Iranian male juvenile Behnoud Shojaee, aged 21, was executed in Evin prison, Tehran, at dawn on 11 October 2009. He had been convicted of murder, and the family ...
