Prime Minister Najib Razak plans to repeal the Internal Security Act, which allows the authorities to detain people indefinitely without charge or trial.
Court upholds government decision to reject plans for the expansion of the Lanjigarh refinery finding that the project violated the country's environmental laws.
The decision comes amid concern at mass human rights violations committed during an ongoing crackdown on dissent and an increased use of the death penalty.
Former colonel Kaddour Terhzaz was sentenced to 12 years in jail after he wrote to the country's monarch complaining about the treatment of former air force pilots.
The country has become the 114th to commit to tackling gross human rights violations by ratifying the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
President García to repeal a decree which could grant amnesties to military personnel alleged to have committed abuses during the 1980 – 2000 internal conflict.
Amnesty International has welcomed the release of a Mexican indigenous human rights activist who was imprisoned for over two years on a fabricated murder charge.
Other countries urged to follow suit to ensure justice for all whose rights are violated and who are denied an effective remedy in their own countries.
Max Goeldi served a four month prison sentence and had been the subject of a two year travel ban as a result of a diplomatic row between the two countries.
Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of 19 Turkish officials found guilty of causing the death of a political activist in a landmark torture case.
Amnesty International has welcomed the holding to account of eight Cairo city officials convicted of negligence over the deaths of at least 119 people in a rockslide that hit a Cairo slum in September 2008.
Lotfi Raissi was released in 2002 after 'no evidence at all' was found to support allegations that he trained the hijackers of airplanes used in the attacks on the US on 11 September 2001.
The lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) political party, Ang Ladlad, will be allowed to contest in May's national elections for the first time.
Amnesty International has welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of commiting a murder while still a child.
Twenty states began signing an international agreement to address
violations of economic, social and cultural rights at the United
Nations in New York on Thursday.
The six had been sentenced on 6 August to a mandatory sentence of two
years’ imprisonment and fined 250,000 Dalasis (US$10,000) for defamation and sedition.
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the
agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted
opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.
One of Nigeria's most influential states has taken an important step
towards abolition of the death penalty by pardoning and releasing three
condemned prisoners.
Santiago Omar Riveros, who ran a detention centre, was found guilty of torturing and beating to
death a 15 year old boy. He is also accused of over 40 crimes against humanity involving victims of the era's so-called "disappeared".
More than 4,000 prisoners facing execution in Kenya had their sentences
commuted to life imprisonment on Monday in the largest commutation in
history, news sources reported.
A Brazilian organization has thanked Amnesty International after an
action by the organization brought safety to a peasant farmer and land
rights activist.
Usra al-Hussein’s imprisonment for almost a year, may have been related to her efforts to
communicate with an international organization regarding the detention
conditions of her husband.
An investigation into 20 deaths by Rio de Janeiro's Public Prosecutors Office has implicated the officers in the formation of a death squad and unlawful killings.
Dr Binayak Sen, who spent two years in an Indian prison as a Prisoner
of Conscience, was released on Tuesday after being granted bail by the
Supreme Court.
Fifteen of the eighteen Zimbabwean human rights and political activists
who were re-detained yesterday have now been released on bail, though
three remain in custody
Nechirvan Barzani promised to make the security forces accountable for cases of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances and other ill-treatment.
The government of Bangladesh has sought and received UN assistance in
its efforts to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity and
other serious violations o
The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) have released former
governor Alan Jara, who had been held hostage by the guerrilla group
since 2001.
Four Egyptian newspaper editors convicted of publishing offences under
a controversial press law have had their one-year prison sentences
overturned by a Cairo Appea
A prominent human rights lawyer in Indonesia has been cleared of
charges relating to a text message he is alleged to have sent to his
friends and family contacts.
The Turkish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender solidarity
organization, Lambda Istanbul, has won its appeal against the closure
of the association.
Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a second
resolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at the
United Nations on T
A vote in Brazil’s Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the rights of
Indigenous Peoples in the reservation of Raposa Serra do Sol on the
frontier between Brazil
The international community has
adopted a historic instrument that secures access to justice for
everyone whose economic, social and cultural rights are violated and
Four countries have ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions - which
bans the production, stockpiling, use and export of cluster bombs. The treaty cannot take eff
In an important step towards making the African Union (AU) a totally death penalty-free zone, the African Commission calls on African States to observe a moratorium on
One hundred and forty-seven states voted overwhelmingly at the United
Nations on Friday to move forward with work on the main elements of an
Arms Trade Treaty.
The son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor, could face between 20 years to life imprisonment for the crimes he
committed in Liberia, while serving as the hea
The Turkish Minister of
Justice has accepted the responsibility of the state in the case of
Engin Çeber who died after being held at the Metris Prison in Ista
Iran has instructed all courts to stop issuing death sentences against juvenile offenders. However, it is not clear if the directive includes those convicted of murder
Arrested for trying to organize a peaceful demonstration critical of the Libyan government, Idriss Boufayed has been released on humanitarian grounds, after being diag
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has pardoned Ibrahim
Eissa, who was charged with publishing information considered "damaging to the public interest and Egypt's
This latest initiative paves the way for other countries to follow
suit, and makes Argentina the sixth country to ratify all the human
rights instruments of the inte
Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's
The family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured
over a period of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra, Iraq,
will be paid compensati
Uzbekistani human rights defender Mutabar Tadzhibaeva, who was
sentenced to eight years in prison in 2006, was unexpectedly released
on Monday, 2 June.
110 states have agreed a provisional text for a historic new Convention on
Cluster Munitions, which is a treaty to ban the "Use, Production and
Transfer of Clus
An Indigenous Canadian community’s longstanding campaign to stop
clear-cut logging on its land has prompted a multinational paper
company to stop buying wood f
Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd formally apologised to the
Indigenous people who were members of the Stolen Generation and their
families on Wednesday in Parli
A new resolution on survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system urges the Japanese government to acknowledge, apologize and compensate the victims.
Algerian human rights lawyers Hassiba Boumerdesi and Amine Sidhoum were acquitted of charges of violating laws governing the organization and security of prisons by a
A former prisoner of conscience has thanked Amnesty International for helping secure her release from jail by donating a journalism award to the organization.
The release of journalist Alan Johnston is welcome news for all those
who campaigned over the last 114 days for his release. It is also good
news for the people
Amnesty International welcomes the release from Guantánamo of Bisher al-Rawi. The UK resident was reunited with his family in the UK on 1 April after more than
Six foreign medical workers have arrived in Bulgaria after being released from a Libyan jail, bringing an end to a tragic case that has been riddled with injustice.
A Tunisian lawyer and 21 other long-term political prisoners were released under a presidential pardon on 24 July to mark the 50th anniversary of the Republic of Tunis
