It is now six years since six men were illegally transferred from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Guantánamo, where they remain in indefinite detention.

Amnesty International is leading worldwide events, rallies and meetings to mark the sixth anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to Guantánamo Bay.

At least 52 people have been killed and many others injured in two bomb attacks in Algiers.

Scores of Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003.

The Israeli army has increased efforts to force Palestinian villagers out of the Jordan Valley region of the occupied West Bank, by destroying villagers’ homes a

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

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.

Three men are facing imminent execution in Egypt. Muhammed Gayiz Sabbah, Usama 'Abed al-Ghani al-Nakhlawi and Younis Muhammed Abu Gareer were convicted of terroris

Sina Paymard, the young man reprieved at the gallows in 2006 by relatives of the murder victim after he had played the flute, was a 16-year-old drug addict at the time