Amnesty International has called for Fiji's former leader Laisenia Qarase to be freed from prison, accusing the country's military regime of using politically motivated charges to silence its critics.

The United States was the only Western democracy that executed prisoners last year, even as an increasing number of U.S. states are moving to abolish the death penalty, Amnesty International announced

China has earned the dubious distinction of accounting for more executions than the rest of the world put together in 2011, Amensty International said on Tuesday.

In a report, it said there has been

Coming down heavily on India for alleged rights violations in terror-riven Jammu and Kashmir, global rights watchdog Amnesty International on Monday said the Public Safety Act (PSA) should be revoked in the state.

Dec 25: Amnesty International said Saturday that the life sentence handed down to Indian rights activist Binayak Sen for his alleged Maoist links violates "international fair trial standards".

It is

Washington: WikiLeaks released nearly 400,000 classified U.S. files on the Iraq war on Friday, some detailing gruesome cases of prisoner abuse by Iraqi forces that the U.S. military knew about but did

Nicosia, Aug. 21: Amnesty International urged the Saudi authorities on Friday not to medically paralyse a man in retribution for similar injuries he allegedly caused during a fight.

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