The director of Amnesty International UK said she was “forcefully” shoved by a Chinese embassy official during a ceremony to remember protesters killed in one of China’s bloodiest crackdowns.

The US government’s failure to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay naval base is leaving “a toxic legacy for human rights”, a charity said.

MORE than half of Britons believe some rape victims should take responsibility for being attacked, research suggested yesterday.

A BRITISH woman who went to police in Dubai to report she had been raped was then arrested for having sex with her fiance.

THE world has “betrayed” civilians in the Gaza Strip by failing to end a blockade of the enclave, 16 rights groups, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, said yesterday.

A British resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years arrived back in the UK today.

An international campaign was launched today to press the British government for a fully independent inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane.

A BRITISH mother said last night she was “just waiting for the police” after losing an appeal against her conviction for adultery in Dubai.

As the British House of Lords voted against the 42 days detention limit, dozens of Amnesty International supporters donned pyjamas for a “mass sleepwalk” in protest against the measure.

CHILDREN on both sides of the border are to learn about human rights in an exercise likely to improve their behaviour and attitudes to their classmates.

Soldiers in Burma opened fire on thousands of anti-government protesters today, killing at least nine people and injuring 11.

AMNESTY International yesterday warned the “core principles of the Olympic charter” are under threat unless China can be pressured into making wide-ranging human rights reforms before the Beijing Olympics begin in 2008.

AMNESTY International yesterday condemned as "absolutely shocking" the execution of the 1,000th prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Amnesty International today condemned as “absolutely shocking” the execution of the 1,000th prisoner in the United States since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976.

Senior British judges faced new demands today to boycott an inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

An Amnesty International report has alleged British forces in Iraq have shot and killed civilians, including an eight-year-old girl, in situations in which they were under no apparent threat.

BRITISH forces in Iraq have shot and killed civilians, including an eight-year-old girl, in situations in which they were under no apparent threat, according to an Amnesty International report released yesterday.

THE US and Britain denounced the abuse of Iraqi detainees by US forces and vowed to punish those responsible as the Arab world reacted angrily to photographs from inside an Iraqi prison shown by CBS television in America.

A DEFIANT Mordechai Vanunu walked out of prison yesterday after serving 18 years for spilling Israel's nuclear secrets.

Amnesty International today called for the sentence of 100 lashes passed on a 16-year-old school girl in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for adultery to be commuted immediately.