Amnesty plans protests for Guantanamo anniversary
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Amnesty International will hold international protests Friday to press for the closure of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, six years after the first detainees arrived, the group said.
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New York is offering peaceful protester discounts at shops, restaurants and hotels for hundreds of thousands of demonstrators set to rally against President George Bush during the Republican convention.
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The road to the Guantanamo Bay detention center begins in Pakistan, according to a report by rights group Amnesty International.
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Human rights activists protested outside a top-security jail in London where some foreign nationals have been detained without trial for almost three years under controversial anti-terrorism laws.
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Hundreds of civil rights campaigners staged on Sunday a protest outside a prison in London against foreign nationals being held under anti-terror laws which allows foreign suspects to be jailed indefinitely without trial.
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Thousands are expected to march in protest at the treatment of Australia's indigenous peoples.
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About 30,000 Afghans rallied at what was  once a Taliban execution center in Kabul on Friday to press  President Hamid Karzai to approve a blanket amnesty for 25  years of war crimes.
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A new U.S. plan to try suspected  terrorists at Guantanamo would grant a few more rights to  prisoners charged with war crimes but strip away all legal  recourse for the majority who will never face charges.
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Thousands of protesters called on Saturday for all those behind the killing of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink to be brought to justice, a year after he was gunned down in a murder which shocked Turkey.
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The strip's Islamist leaders have called for protests Wednesday against Bush's first trip to Israel and the West Bank.
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Thousands of Italians are expected to join a protest march against the planned expansion of a US army base.
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Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay during a mass protest in 2003, the military confirmed Monday.
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Hamas threatened to launch a new uprising against Israel on Saturday when hundreds of thousands of Islamist supporters rallied in Gaza City to mark the group's 20th anniversary.
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NEW YORK -- Hundreds of thousands of antiwar protesters, abortion rights supporters, labor rights activists and anarchists are preparing to unfurl banners, march through the streets and rally in the parks, loosening a ...
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Activists are calling for a vigil to draw attention to Saudi Arabian blogger Fouad Al-Farhan, imprisoned since December.
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Al-Qaida says Bin Laden to present last testament of 9/11 suicide hijacker on anniversary of attacks.
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Israeli and Palestinian peace activists plan protests to mark 40 years since the Arab-Israeli war of 1967.