Amnesty has called on the Tunisian authorities to drop indecency charges against a woman summoned to court after complaining that police officers raped her.

The Sudanese authorities have been told to stop the torture and ill-treatment of those detained following demonstrations since mid-June 2012.

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.