Foreign journalists working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org - the Amnesty International website. A number of other websites are also reported to have been blocked. As Amnesty International prepares to launch a new report evaluating the Chinese authorities’ human rights performance in the run-up to the Olympics, this flies in the face of official pro...

Peter Gabriel is being awarded the 2008 Ambassador of Conscience (AOC) in London today, at the launch of Amnesty International's global music and human rights project, the Small Places Tour. The musician and human rights campaigner receives the Amnesty International Award from U2 guitarist the Edge at the Hard Rock Café. Other people to previously hold the title are Nelson Mandela,...

There is a story in yesterday's Sunday Herald about one Scottish Amnesty International activist's involvement in securing the release of Saidzhakon Zainabitdinov, an Uzbek political prisoner. I have been a guest in Saidzhakon's home, and he is a good and brave man. I am a fan of Amnesty International. I have seen at the sharp end how their simple methodology really can save lives. T...

The row between Gita Sahgal and Amnestry International rumbles on. This is concerning Gita Sahgal’s suspension by Amnesty pursuant to a disciplinary case against here, the specific details of which I do not know, but which concerns her public repudiation of Amnesty International’s association with former Guantanamo prisner, Moazzam Begg, in an article in the

This site is maintained by international human rights group Amnesty International. It provides free access to press releases, statements, maps, campaign materials and full text Amnesty International reports relating to human rights in the DR Congo. Thses include coverage of armed conflict, refugees, humanitarian aid, political violence, torture and ill treatment in the region. Materials generally ...

Amnesty International is one of the best loved organisations in Britain, regardless of whether you grew up with the Secret Policeman’s Balls (which in the late 1970s were the adult equivalent of early 1970s playground recitations of Monty Python sketches - only with the original cast on the...

Amnesty International has told the Northern Irish First Minister and Deputy First Minister that they should follow the leader of the Irish Republic and consider taking released prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. The Northern Irish government doesn’t have the power to make this kind of decision, it’s a reserved matter.  Amnesty International should shut the fuck up

New information about the arbitrary detention of five Malaysian government critics obtained by Amnesty International researchers, highlights the need for the Malaysian parliament to immediately abolish the country’s Internal Security Act, Amnesty International said today. A recent Amnesty International mission to Malaysia researching the human rights situation there established that the sole...

Amnesty International released a 22 page report on 13 october 2010 in which it raises concerns on the fairness of the trial of the Miami Five. This is a major breakthrough in the campaign for justice for the Five since the international human rights organisation had previously only campaigned on visitation rights for two of the

I know that we are no longer supposed to have anything to do with Amnesty International since it declared itself Abortion International instead. But at the refreshments after Mass this morning, there were its Christmas cards, and the details of person to whom we might like to send them. Of course, for the reason stated, I did not do so. But I wished that I could have done. Because those details we...