Amnesty International has expressed concern that 'confessions' on Iranian state television may result in 12 people facing the death penalty.

A Court of Appeal judge has ordered a hearing into the trial faced by an Afghan prisoner after UK forces transferred him to Afghanistan’s notorious National Directorate of Security.

A new project which brings together all the available data on hundreds of victims of rendition, torture and secret detention has launched online.

A new report by Amnesty Interntional says the Bahraini government’s response to the findings of an international commission of inquiry has proved inadequate.