Amnesty International today called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release, or charge with a recognisable criminal offence, more than 70 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group arrested...

Amnesty International today urged the Foreign Secretary William Hague to demand an independent international investigation into alleged war crime abuses in Sri Lanka when he meets his Sri Lankan...

Amnesty International is today urging the Indian government to end the routine torture of those held by police and prison authorities by ensuring the country’s new Prevention of Torture Bill meets...

Amnesty International has today urged the Israeli authorities to abandon plans to construct 238 new housing units in Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. The housing units are planned for...

AMNESTY TURNS DOWN INVITATION TO APPEAR BEFORE COMISSION Amnesty International has declined an invitation to appear before Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and calls...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have called on the Austrian authorities to protect a Vienna-based Turkmenistani activist who is said to be the target of a plot against his life by agents...

Amnesty International has today called on the Moroccan authorities to immediately and unconditionally release three Sahrawi activists set to face trial following their visit to refugee camps in...

Amnesty International and iceandfire are to present the top choices from entries to this year’s international human rights playwriting competition. ‘Everyone has the Right’ is iceandfire’s New Writing...

Former high-ranking Guatemalan officials accused of involvement in the extrajudicial executions of prisoners should face prosecution in fair trials, Amnesty International said after the arrest of...

Amnesty International UK publishes its first annual report today (14 October), focusing on the objectives and outcomes of its human rights work, with chapters too on governance, staff and volunteers...