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May 6, 2013

Close Guantanamo Now

It's been 10 years since detainees first arrived at Guantanamo. Since then, we’ve seen shocking human rights abuses there and around the world.

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April 3, 2012

Former president of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA) Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb has provided a detailed account in court of his torture and other ill-treatment.

March 30, 2012

On 11 April the clemency application of Jacqueline Montanez will be reviewed, she is serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for a crime committed as a child.

February 2, 2012

Syrian farmer Hussam Ahmed al-Nabulsi was arrested by members of the Syrian Military Intelligence on his way to work. He has been held incommunicado and subjected to torture and other ill-treatment...

January 27, 2012

The whereabouts of two women employed by Iraq’s Vice-President’s Office are unknown. Amnesty International fears they are at risk of torture and ill-treatment.