Ahead of Algeria’s presidential elections, the country's next
leader has been urged to address the legacy of
human rights abuses of the 1990’s internal c
At least 10 people were arrested this month after demonstrations against
the arrest by security forces of Shi’a visitors to the tomb of the
Prophet Muhammad in
The Chinese government should immediately reveal the whereabouts of prominent human rights defender Feng Zhenghu, whose detention by security forces in Beijing on 15 F
Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their
villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio
When peace talks between the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
and the government in Nepal broke down in August 2003, there was an
immediate increase in human rights
Amnesty International has written to the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights following a meeting between a delegation from the organization
and the Nepalese Presid
A new Amnesty International report details numerous cases of intimidation, harassment, threats,
detention without trial, torture and long prison terms after unfair tr
