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Former president Hissene Habre was sentenced to life for rape, sexual slavery and ordering killings.

Recipients said to have made "inspirational and meaningful contributions to advancing human rights".

Amnesty reports record number of death sentences.

Some 429 people have reportedly been put to death in Vietnam between August 2013 and June 2016.

We've prioritised trade and the economy over human life.

UK prime minister is set to meet Saudi Arabia's King Salman a week after triggering Brexit talks.

The activists, Su Changlan and Chen Qitang, were charged for inciting others to 'subvert state power'.

Amnesty International has also protested against his jail conditions, calling it 'unnecessarily harsh'.

The US-led coalition fighting Isis has announced that it is investigating the incident.

Warning from human rights organisation comes after the Qatar-UK Business Forum in London.

International community and donor countries should give financial support to Kenyan government, NGOs say.

"They were beating me on the back with a belt and electric cables."

Group said rise in "politics of demonisation" threatens rights at home and abroad.

Meet 'Safeena Malik', the fake persona at the heart of a cyber campaign targeting activists.

It was the first royal insult case brought during King Maha Vajiralongkorn's rule.

Mass executions took place every week in the prison from September 2011 to December 2015, the report said.

New Amnesty International report alleges thousands of extrajudicial killings at Saydnaya prison.

Campaign is part of Amnesty International's efforts to drum up global solution to the crisis.

Earlier, President Duterte had urged army generals to help him in the war against drugs.

Human Rights group has said the incentives to kill drug dealers and users has created an "economy of murder".

A gunman shot the lawyer as he attempted to enter a taxi outside Yangon International Airport.

The Cambridge Phd student was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Egypt.

'He deserves better than a life in exile,' Amnesty International's Secretary General Salil Shetty said.

Djotodia is accused of recruiting child soldiers and atrocities against civilians.

Bozizé is accused of "murder, torture and inciting genocide and hate" in the Central African Republic.

Seleka rebel forces were supposedly disbanded in 2013 but still operate under Hissene.

Lébéné and other armed leaders facing allegations of crimes continue to roam CAR unhindered.

The vast majority of those accused of grave crimes are still living among their victims.

One of many suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Ngaïkosset is still "roaming free" in CAR.

Ngaissona, a former minister turned leader of the armed militias, ran for president despite allegations.