Tag: Amnesty International

Nigeria on Tuesday marks 50 years since the declaration of an independent Republic of Biafra plunged the country into a ...

A UAE lawyer sentenced to 10 years in 2013 for plotting against the regime was on Saturday awarded a major ...

China has arrested a visiting Taiwanese rights activist on suspicion of subverting state power, according to reports. Lee Ming-che, a ...

Hundreds of supporters of Zambian opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema protested outside court on Friday when a judge again adjourned a ...

Bahrain on Wednesday warned people against holding protests a day after police shot dead five demonstrators in the home village ...

A South Korean military court on Wednesday sentenced a captain to six months in jail for having same-sex intercourse with ...

When human rights lawyer Li Heping returned to his home in Beijing after a two-year incarceration, his wife did not ...

As news broke that India's army had commended a senior officer who tied a Kashmiri man to a jeep and ...

Two men have been caned 83 times each in the Indonesian province of Aceh after being caught having sex. The ...

Bahraini police opened fire Tuesday on a protest by supporters of a top Shiite cleric, with at least one demonstrator ...

Two Indonesian men were caned Tuesday in front of a jeering crowd as a punishment for gay sex, in a ...

Two Indonesian men will Tuesday be publicly caned for having sex, in a first for the Muslim-majority country where there ...

A concert next month protesting US President Donald Trump's plan to build a border wall will be on the Mexican ...

A Ghanaian asylum seeker who lost his fingers to frostbite while crossing into Manitoba from the U. S. on Christmas ...

Standing outside the UN's headquarters in Geneva, Amina Kholani chokes back tears as she relives the nightmare of visiting relatives ...

Ethiopian opposition politician Yonatan Tesfaye has been found guilty of encouraging terrorism for comments he made on Facebook. He was ...

The Syrian government has been accused of carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners by the US government - ...

The United States on Monday accused the Syrian regime of installing a prison crematorium to destroy the remains of thousands ...

Family of Gregory Afoko, the man accused of the murder of Adams Mahama, a former Upper East Regional Chairman of ...

Indonesia is facing renewed calls to repeal its controversial blasphemy law after the jailing of Jakarta's Christian governor, with critics ...