More than one billion people live in slums. Governments often forcibly evict people living in slums, driving them further into poverty and into more precarious ...
When Amnesty International was founded in 1961, only nine countries had abolished the death penalty for all crimes. Fifty years on, the trend towards worldwide ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: ASA 17/045/2011 Wednesday 28 September China: More Tibetan monks set themselves on fire to protest repression ...
A Pakistani man, Syed Zahid Hussain Shah was executed by lethal injection on 21 September after the Supreme People's Court in Beijing had approved his death sentence ...
A Pakistani man, Syed Zahid Hussain Shah, 36, faces imminent execution in China. The Supreme People's Court in Beijing has approved his death sentence and announced ...
Liu Zhenggang, a designer, has been released. He was released on 24 June 2011 on medical grounds. He remains under surveillance at his home in Beijing, China.
Ran Yunfei has been put under “residential surveillance”. Hua Chunhui has been sent home to serve the rest of his term on medical grounds. Ding Mao, Chen Wei and ...