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Police investigates officers captured on camera kicking Civic Party member.

Oklahoma's refurbished death chamber aims to improve lethal injections following botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

The USA, Japan and Pakistan all violate international standards, say Amnesty International

Amnesty International asks police to investigate claims Win and Zaw Rim were threatened with torture

Dozens of Chinese companies export torture devices, rights groups say.

Amnesty urges UN to deploy all peacekeepers to protect civilians as conflict continues to claim lives.

30 August marks International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

On 13 September 2013, the slim, bearded Saif al-Islam Gaddafi faced a judge in a courtroom to hear the prosecutors' case against him.

Labour campaign warns rape victims, LGBT community and elderly will suffer without Human Rights Act

Human rights organisations did not meet requirements set by Israeli Social Affairs ministry

Simon Clegg, who brought Olympics to London in 2012, organising Azerbaijan's Baku 2015 event.

Amnesty International report states US military justice system allows war crimes to go unaccounted for.

Qatari government responds to international outcry over labour laws.

Prominent Saudi lawyer Waleed Abulkhair has been sentenced to prison for political dissident.

Human rights organisation hopes to help activists in imminent danger of attack, kidnap or torture

A powerful economy and wealthier citizens may not be enough for Chinese demanding political reform.

Third of British believe torture acceptable to protect the public

Amnesty's capital punishment report reveals overall number of executions worldwide has risen by 15%

Watch dramatic footage of Igor Miroshcichenko and five cohorts manhandling Panteleymonov in his office

Amnesty International report claims Israel forces potentially guilty of 'war crimes' in occupied West Bank

President dumps law weighted against relatives of victims of domestic violence.

Testimonies in the report recount tales of torture, rape, cold-blooded exterminations at the labour camps.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina criticised over New York concert.

Two members of the Russian punk rock band Pussy Riot will be introduced by Madonna.

Homophobic crackdown on gays spreads through Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and others.

Donors meet at Syria aid summit in Kuwait as UN urges immediate aid for half of the Syrian population.

Amnesty International urges the intervention of the international community in Central African Republic to stop crimes against humanity.

Children as young as 13 beaten and threatened with rape for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations.

Amnesty International pays a moving tribute to Nelson Mandela, whose death will leave a hole around the world.

323 young people were tasered by UK police in 2011, an 11-fold rise since 2007.