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Amnesty International's Shocking Short Film Exposes How UK's Squalid Housing Kills Children
Temporary accommodation contributed to the deaths of more than 34 children since April 2019.
Nigeria To End 'Gay Wedding' Witch Hunt Says Amnesty International
Police continue to search for the missing man after more than 70 people were arrested and accused of attending a "gay party" and planning a "gay wedding" in Nigeria.
Man escapes death penalty then dies of heart attack after getting pardoned
An Iranian man who was jailed for murder around 18 years ago and was put on death row, suffered a cardiac arrest after he got to know that he will not be executed.
Premier League broadcast partners oppose Newcastle's Saudi-backed bid
The CEO of beIN Sports recently wrote a letter to the Premier League asking it to block Newcastle's £300 million takeover bid
Qatar World Cup 2022: Poor migrant workers abandoned without pay by building contractor
Mercury MENA, an engineering and plumbing firm, owes thousands of dollars of wages to workers from countries where many live on less than $2 a day.
Saudi Arabia faces 'humiliation' in Yemen says ex-Tory Cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell
The former international development secretary Andrew Mitchell says Saudi Arabia will be defeated in the conflict in Yemen.
China sentences ten to death in front of cheering crowd of thousands
A court in China sentenced 10 people to death in front of thousands of onlookers, including schoolchildren, before taking them away to be immediately executed.
Pop singer jailed in Egypt for eating banana 'in a suggestive manner'
Shyma's risque pop video in deeply conservative country lands her two-year jail sentence for inciting debauchery.
Being gay or trans isn't illegal in Indonesia, so why are authorities cracking down on LGBT people?
Activists fear that an anti-LGBT law could be passed as homophobia starts gaining traction in the country.
GCHQ, MI5, MI6 face first major lawsuit over mass surveillance in EU court
Multiple civil rights groups have brought forward the first major lawsuit against British intelligence agencies since Snowden's revelations on mass spying.
Terrorists searched naked and kept in cells 22 hours a day in 'inhuman' Dutch prisons, Amnesty warns
Former detainees at Dutch terrorist prisons told Amnesty that they were confined to their cells for up to 22 hours a day and subjected to full-nudity body searches.
Iran issues death penalty to 'Mossad spy' over his role in nuclear scientists' killings
Ahmadreza Djalali, is an emergency medicine specialist and a lecturer at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute.
Claire Danes, James McAvoy and Ben Stiller call for release of human rights activists in Turkey
Director of Amnesty Turkey, İdil Eser, has already spent 100 days behind bars. Turkey has been accused of "frequent attacks on human rights".
In Saudi Arabia, 40% of executions are for drug offences that aren't even punishable by death
Conservative Islamic kingdom has put 60 people to death in three months, according to Amnesty International.
Egyptians arrested for displaying rainbow flags and joining gay dating sites in 'worst LGBT crackdown' for 16 years
The arrests mark the "worst crackdown against LGBT people" in almost two decades, human rights activists say.
Irishman Ibrahim Halawa found not guilty of criminal charges in Egypt after four-year detention
Human rights activists say he was detained solely for exercising his right to freedom of expression.
Amnesty 'deeply concerned' about Nigeria video showing alleged torture of Biafran separatists
Footage allegedly shows Nigerian army torture and murder of Biafran separatists in Abia state.
'Horrific' violence in Central African Republic warns Amnesty International
The human rights organization interviewed dozens of survivors in Basse-Kotto prefecture in the country's east.
Fortress Europe: Italy's controversial new plans to stop migrants
Italy plans to send warships to Libyan waters and has drawn up rules that must be followed by NGOs that rescue migrants.
A German minister accused Erdogan's Turkey of behaving like communist East Germany
German human rights activist and five others are in custody in Turkey pending trial on terrorism charges.
Turkey: Midwives among those arrested in Erdogan's latest purge of opponents
Crackdown sees another 115 people arrested on suspicion of being FETO sympathisers.
Battle for Mosul: Isis hung bodies from pylons and coalition forces 'failed to protect civilians'
Amnesty says UK claim of no civilian casualties was 'implausible'.
Iran, Turkey send food to Qatar amid Gulf dispute
Qatar refused to confirm whether dispatches constituted aid or exports.
Amnesty calls for Israeli settlement import ban to protest 50 years of West Bank occupation
Human rights organisation said the UK government should stop importing dates and oranges.
Saudi Arabia plans to execute 14 Shia convicts even as human rights groups allege unfair trial
All the men were convicted in 2016, but were held in detention for more than two years before the start of their trial.
US Army lost track of $1bn of arms in Middle East - sparking fears some could be in Isis hands
Tens of thousands of assault rifles and hundreds of mortar rounds are missing.
310,000 including Richard Branson call for release of students detained over Boko Haram joke
Pressure is mounting on Cameroon's President Paul Biya to release the three students.
Mexican woman activist who headed a group searching for disappeared people is murdered
Miriam Rodriguez Martinez was shot on Wednesday night in the town of San Fernando in Tamaulipas state.
Inside North Korean death camps: Thousands tortured, starved and raped says female prison guard
Food is so scarce that inmates catch snakes in order to avoid starvation.
Amnesty International UK will confront politicians over 'toxic language' during election campaign
Kate Allen, director of the human rights group, spoke to IBTimes UK about the issue.