Amnesty International

Activist and artist Atena Farghadani suffered solitary confinement and a heart attack after drawing a cartoon depicting Iran’s members of parliament as animals voting on law curtailing women’s rights.

Nigeria’s military has denied reports that a recent Boko Haram attack near the town of Baga took some two thousand lives earlier this month. But satellite images released by Amnesty International offer proof of a wide swath of destruction.

Amnesty International investigated 9 drone strikes in Pakistan over the last 20 months, including some where drones struck a second time, minutes later, and killed those who came in to help the victims. Amnesty says that would be a war crime, if it is intentional.

Amnesty International issued the 50th edition of its annual death penalty report this week, after finding that overall executions increased from 2010, despite a decline in the number of countries conducting executions. It also found that fewer death sentences were handed down than in the previous year.

Amnesty International is claiming that the U.S. broke international law when it took part in an airstrike in Yemen. Mike Lewis explains that the weapons used exceeded the ethical and legal limits for the civilian-populated area.