Amnesty International is deeply concerned that the Pakistan government has facilitated the practice of enforced disappearance with the creation of security laws ...
Torture and other ill-treatment were widespread in Iraq before the US-led invasion in 2003 and continued in prisons and detention facilities controlled by coalition ...
Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to halt themounting number of death sentences being handed out in the run-up todelayed national elections ...
Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been charged with attempting to overthrow the state. For this, he could face the death penalty. Two others are facing the same ...
Fifteen men sentenced to death in Iraq in June could be executed at any time after 6 November, which marks the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. Their sentences have ...
In this open letter, written on the occasion of Benin's election to the UN Human Rights Council in the elections scheduled for 20 May 2011, Amnesty International ...