Plight of the band has drawn international attention

Governments and local authorities should be doing everything they can to make it easier for people to be active - not taxing them harder for it

Prosecutor demands arrest of Supreme Guide for provoking army into shooting 55 civilians dead 

Pressure groups have called on the PM to raise human rights  issues with the regime

Richard Hall meets supporters of Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his Istanbul stronghold, Fatih

Brian Wood has battled for decades to hold the global arms trade to account. Now, a historic treaty is being signed

Prince of Wales will represent the UK as Palace dismisses suggestion that move is related to political situation in country

Though Gaddafi is gone, the tools he used to stop Libyan journalists attacking him are still being used.

Canada 'appalled' that Colombo had been selected to host the Commonwealth meeting

Human rights are for the rest of us, as well as the best of us. Anything approaching a sliding scale of entitlement is frightening, says Amnesty's Campaigns Director

An outspoken Tamil newspaper in northern Sri Lanka whose premises have been repeatedly targeted, and its employees killed, was attacked by armed men who stormed into the building and set the printing presses ablaze. It is the second attack on the newspaper in two weeks.

Two elderly women have been beheaded in front of a crowd of onlookers in Papua New Guinea in the latest of a spate of brutal attacks in the country against people accused of witchcraft.

Iraq is executing more people than it has done for almost a decade. The country now has the third highest number of executions in the world, according to a report to be published this week.

Mark Knopfler has cancelled two shows in Russia in protest over what he says is a crackdown on human rights groups in the country.