Amnesty International today made an appeal to the Manipur government to drop all charges against activist Irom Chanu Sharmila before she ends her 16-year-old fast on August 9.
Istanbul: Amnesty International on Friday said that the European Union (EU) must immediately halt plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey on the false pretence that it is a “safe country” for refugees. The rights group
The number of internally displaced people has doubled to 1.2 million in the past three years due to the escalation in conflict in Afghanistan
New Delhi: Amnesty International has criticized Indian authorities for contributing to a climate of growing intolerance for dissent by carrying out or supporting a series of arbitrary arrests, caste-based discrimination, extrajudicial executions and attacks on
London: The Amnesty International Human Rights Award 2016 has gone to Indian activist Henri Tiphagne.A lawyer and human rights defender, Tiphagne will be awarded the 8th Human Rights Award by Amnesty International Germany. The award
Dubai: Dozens of people who were arrested in Iran for crimes committed before they turned 18 remain at risk of the death penalty despite recent reforms, with many having already spent years on death row,
United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has declined comment over an Amnesty International report that blames India of not taking action against troops accused of atrocities in Jammu and Kashmir state.Asked on Thursday at the
Jerusalam: A leading international watchdog on Wednesday accused the militant Hamas group of abducting, torturing and killing Palestinians during the war in the Gaza Strip last year, saying some of the actions amount to war
United Nations:Egypt and Nigeria accounted for well over 1,000 of the death sentences announced last year, more than a third of the world's total, Amnesty International says in its latest annual report on the death
London: Human rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday criticised the Narendra Modi-led government, saying under the new regime India had witnessed a rise in communal violence and its Land Acquisition Ordinance has put thousands of
Guwahati: Human rights activist Irom Sharmila Chanua "who has been fasting since 2000 demanding repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), 1958," was released from a hospital turned into a jail Thursday.The development
London: The Israeli military's destruction of civilian buildings during its Protective Edge offensive this summer amounts to war crimes and must be investigated, human rights monitor Amnesty International said today.The destruction of four multi-story buildings
New Delhi: The Central government has agreed to increase the compensation for Bhopal gas tragedy victims, Amnesty International yesteday said and welcomed the move.The government also promised to revise the numbers of deaths and injuries,
Washington: Amnesty International has launched a new open source app called ‘Panic Button' to help activists facing imminent danger.The press of a button sends an immediate SMS distress signal to activists' own networks.“The aim of
New Delhi: There was evidence that several hundreds of Indians were stranded in Najaf province of Iraq as their employer has refused to return their passports, Amnesty International said Saturday."With fighting between state forces and
New Delhi: Was the Dalai Lama subjected to physical torture by China? The answer is no.Amnesty International has used the beaten, bruised and swollen faces of well-known figures to front their latest campaign against torture.The
London: Pakistani journalists live under constant threat of being killed, harassment and other violence from all sides, including intelligence services, political parties and armed groups like the Taliban, the Amnesty International said in a report
Islamabad: Amnesty International called on the US to investigate reports of civilians killed and wounded by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan in a report released on Tuesday that provided new details about the alleged victims
London: The WikiLeaks website appears close to releasing what the Pentagon fears is the largest cache of secret US documents in history -- hundreds of thousands of intelligence reports compiled after the 2003 invasion of
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