Amnesty slams Sen's 'unusually harsh' sentence

Amnesty International on Saturday described human rights activist Binayak Sen as a prisoner of conscience and flayed his conviction by a Chhatisgarh court, saying it violated international......

Lanka asked to stop harassing scribes and NGOs

A prominent human rights group asked Sri Lanka to end the alleged harassment of journalists and non-governmental organisations in the country. "The Sri Lankan government is conducting a carefully......

UN chief , aide aware of Tamil massacre: Report

The demand for an independent war crimes investigations into the "massacre" during the final days of the civil war in Sri Lanka has been intensified amid outrage that Vijay Nambiar, a top aide to......

Amnesty seeks probe into Lanka's alleged rights violations

Ahead of a crucial vote in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva seeking to censure Sri Lanka on alleged war-time human rights violations, Amnesty International on Tuesday raised the pitch, saying......