AIUK and Stonewall organised demo outside the Russian Embassy in London, to hand in over 177,000 signatures calling for investigation into the abduction and killing of hundreds of gay men in Chechnya. Event was attended by Amnesty and Stonewall supporters, as well as celebs including Sir Iain McKellen.
Handcuffs are attached to bars at an unidentified prison in Caracas August 15, 2011. Venezuela's prisons are notorious for ease of access to weapons and drugs as well as mobile phones and computers hooked up to the internet, allowing inmates easy access to the outside world, often to run further crime. The country's 34 jails house nearly 50,000 people, but were built for under a third of that, say local rights groups. Picture taken August 15, 2011. To go with story VENEZUELA-PRISONS/ REUTERS/Jorge Silva (VENEZUELA - Tags: SOCIETY CRIME LAW) - RTR2RQIP