News & Updates

Dina Meza

Activists in Honduras tell Amnesty International of hidden human rights crisis

4 December 2009

An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras talked to human rights activists about the hidden crisis affecting the Central American nation.
Artsyom Dubski

Belarus activists tell of life in exile

27 November 2009

Belarusian youth activists sentenced to 'restricted freedom' for attending a peaceful protest have told Amnesty International how they were targeted by the authorities.

Women on the frontline for human rights

10 December 2009

To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to three women who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights.

Two men in Saudi Arabia face execution for 'sorcery'

10 December 2009

Lebanese national 'Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man, could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by the appeal and Supreme Courts.

Post-election Iran violations among worst in 20 years

10 December 2009

New report details abuse before, during and after the June election, when authorities deployed the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests against its disputed outcome.

Blog: My husband's place is not in prison

9 December 2009

Blog written for Amnesty International by Shaimaa, the wife of human rights defender Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussei.

Blog: My son-in-law, the prisoner of conscience

9 December 2009

Blog written by Talib Yakubov, the father-in-law of prisoner of conscience Azam Farmonov.

Nigerian police 'kill at will'

9 December 2009

Amnesty International has exposed the shocking level of unlawful police killings in Nigeria in a new report.

Former Guantánamo Bay detainees deserve justice in Italy

9 December 2009

Tunisian nationals Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Nasseri are suspected of having committed terrorism-related crimes in Italy prior to being held at the US detention centre.

Major accused of torturing girl to death in Nepal must be arrested

8 December 2009

The Nepali government must immediately pursue the arrest of an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old girl to death.

Iran must stop imminent execution of juvenile offender

8 December 2009

The Iranian authorities must halt Wednesday's planned execution of a juvenile offender, Amnesty International has urged.

Indiscriminate Baghdad attacks are a war crime

8 December 2009

Amnesty International has condemned the indiscriminate bomb attacks in Baghdad that killed at least 120 people, many of them civilians, and injured 400 other people on Tuesday.