Torture and Terror

A visualisation of drone strikes in Pakistan

2013-03-27T04:03:29+00:00

This fantastic interactive visualisation shows just how much drone strikes in Pakistan have skyrocketed under the Obama administration.

Is North Korea turning into one big prison?

2013-03-08T03:31:13+00:00

Amnesty International has released new satellite images that raise fears that the North Korean government is starting to blur the line between the country’s horrendous political prison camps and regular villages.

The morality of America’s drone war

2013-02-13T04:06:32+00:00

Drones may be the future of war, but the morality of their deployment is far from certain.

Guantanamo detainee returned to Canada

2012-10-03T01:03:47+00:00

Omar Khadr has been transferred back to native Canada after ten harrowing years behind bars.

165,000 people call for Yodok prison camp to close

2012-04-24T00:32:21+00:00

On Tuesday 12 April, Amnesty International representatives delivered over 165,500 petitions from around the world, calling for the closure of Yodok political prison camp in North Korea.

About the campaign

2012-02-21T00:55:12+00:00

Since the horrific terrorist attacks in America on September 11th, 2001, a countless number of people have been illegally kidnapped, detained, tortured and ill-treated by the U.S and its allies.

160,000 voices call on President Obama to close Guantanamo

2012-01-24T06:13:35+00:00

11 January this year marked exactly 10 years since the first 25 prisoners arrived at Guantanamo Bay

Guantanamo Bay: Get the facts

2012-01-11T00:48:52+00:00

What are the cold hard facts about Guantanamo Bay? The answers to this question will help us close it down for good.

Speak out for the 50,000 forgotten prisoners of Yodok, North Korea

2011-08-09T03:00:32+00:00

We believe that political prison camps such as Yodok in North Korea in North Korea are unjustifiable and inhuman. With the support of people like you from all over the world, we call on Kim Jong-Il not only to acknowledge the camps’ existence, but to close them immediately.

The Angola 3: punished for ‘Black Pantherism’?

2011-06-08T01:52:10+00:00

The "Angola 3" have together spent nearly 80 years in solitary confinement in Louisiana State Penitentiary, USA