Libya’s interim authorities must tackle arbitrary detention and widespread abuse of detainees, Amnesty International says.

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Libya detainee ‘abuse’ condemned

Rights group Amnesty International accuses the Bangladeshi government of unlawful killings by its special police force, the Rapid Action Battalion.

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Bangladesh urged to end killings

Amnesty International is calling on Egyptian authorities to investigate torture allegations from at least 18 female protesters who were arrested in Tahrir square on March 9. Protesters held in military detention have told Amnesty International that…

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Women Tortured in Egypt

Up to 20,000 people in Indian-administered Kashmir have been detained without trial over the last two decades under a draconian Indian law, Amnesty International says.

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‘Draconian’ Kashmir law condemned

Reform has to start somewhere. China, which Amnesty International estimates executed thousands of people in 2009, more than the rest of the world combined, now has 13 fewer nonviolent crimes for which it will execute people. People will no longer be…

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China Reduces Crimes Punishable By Death

Judicial caning in Malaysia has reached epidemic proportions and should be banned, according to an Amnesty International report.

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Malaysia urged to outlaw caning

The human rights group Amnesty International accuses Hungary of not doing enough to prevent violence against the country’s Roma population.

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Hungary accused of failing Roma

Plans to redevelop Nigeria’s oil capital of Port Harcourt – which have already sparked violent clashes – could leave 200,000 people homeless, warns the rights group Amnesty International.

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Nigeria rapped for mass evictions

Rights group Amnesty International calls for a probe into the death of an Indian maid stranded at Muscat airport for five days.

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Calls for dead India maid probe

EU countries should end the forcible return of Roma and other minorities to Kosovo, Amnesty International says in a new report.

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EU ‘must end Kosovo Roma return’

Tens of thousands of people are being held without charge in Iraq, sometimes suffering severe beatings in secret prisons, Amnesty International warned in a new report Monday.

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Amnesty: Iraq holding 30,000 detainees

A British man is among tens of thousands of people imprisoned without charge in Iraq, according to an Amnesty International report.

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Briton in jail in Iraq – Amnesty

U2′s first concert in Russia is marred by police arrests of activists from human rights group Amnesty International before the gig began.

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Arrests made at U2 gig in Russia