The Supreme Court is listening to a proposal to give convicts on death row an option of choosing lethal injection as an alternative to death by hanging as a mode of execution.

The human rights group Amnesty International halted work in India on Tuesday,accusing the government of having frozen its bank accounts as punishment for speaking out about alleged rights abuses.

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In May, 40 Rohingyas were blindfolded and flown to the Andaman and Nicobar islands and then thrown into the sea and made to ...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday (October 15) said that the Centre appeared hesitant to replace hanging with lethal injection ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International called for the European Union (EU) to urge the government of India to end human rights abuses in a joint statement released Monday ahead of the ...

Amnesty International released a statement on Wednesday warning of the Indian government’s disproportionate restrictions on the right to peaceful protest to quell the “Dilli Chalo” farmers protest. In ...

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Amnesty International India has temporarily closed its offices and postponed events aimed at raising awareness of rights abuses over safety concerns for its ...

Other nations that still use this method include Japan, Iran, Singapore and Pakistan. Despite international criticism, ...

It’s only October, of course; surely more will follow of our ‘restrictive laws’, arbitrary detentions and diminishing of ...

The federal agency said it initiated action against the two on the basis of information that Amnesty International, UK had been remitting "huge amount" of foreign contribution through its Indian ...