Iran must release journalists being held solely for carrying out their legitimate work, Amnesty International has said after raids on newspaper offices.

The popular movie Zero Dark Thirty, which depicts the hunt for Osama bin Laden, has been criticised for its legitimising of torture.

Security multinational G4S, which branded itself a shambles over the Olympics staffing crisis, has been shortlisted among the world’s most shameful firms of 2012.

Rwanda’s military intelligence department has illegally held scores of civilians in military detention amid claims of torture, Amnesty says in a new report.