• Jan 21 2012
  • 1:16am
USA: Children, Life Without Parole, and the Case of Christi Cheramie
In the USA children can be sentenced to life without parole, despite an almost universal legal and moral consensus that this sentence should never be imposed on someone under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committe ...
  • Oct 13 2011
  • 12:59am
Bahrain's children caught up in crackdown on protests
In Bahrain the anti-government protests that have spread following the Arab Spring continue to be met with violence, aggression, military trials and the torture and ill-treatment of detainees.A ...
  • May 24 2011
  • 9:00pm
Death Penalty - Iran executes first juvenile offenders in 2011
At AIUK's recent AGM, I attended a workshop on the death penalty and Amnesty International UK's work in this a ...
  • Apr 8 2011
  • 11:52pm
International Roma Day - 8th April 2011
Today isInternational Roma Day and a good time to reflect on the plight of the Roma inEurope and Amnesty’s work on the rights of R ...