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Call for moratorium on death penalty in Pakistan On the day British-Pakistani dual national Mirza Hussain was due to be executed in Pakistan (1 June), Amnesty International has expressed fresh concern...
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) groups and individuals will gather outside the Russian Consulate in Edinburgh on Friday (2 June) to protest the Mayor of Moscow’s decision to ban a gay pride...
Earlier this week President Pervez Musharraf delayed the hanging of Mirza Tahir Hussain, a British national of Pakistani descent, for a month so that his family could make a last ditch attempt to...
Amnesty International today released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe – providing the clearest possible evidence to date of the devastating...
A BBC documentary of the ‘Glasgow Girls’ wins Amnesty International Scottish Media Award . Amnesty’s Scottish Media Award announced yesterday (31 May,) recognises excellence in human rights journalism...
Amnesty International today released the first-ever satellite images of the wholesale destruction of a large community in Zimbabwe – providing the clearest possible evidence to date of the devastating...
To mark 45 years since Amnesty International was founded, today (28 May) the organisation launches a new campaign, irrepressible.info, to challenge a new threat to freedom - repression on the internet...
As Tony Blair prepares for talks with US President Bush in Washington today, Amnesty International said the Prime Minister should call for the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to be closed...
Amnesty International today welcomes the report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) calling on the government to investigate allegations of extraordinary rendition flights through UK...
Speaking at the launch of Amnesty International Report 2006, the organisation’s Secretary General Irene Khan said that the security agenda of the powerful and privileged had diverted the energy and...