‘It is not a criminal matter, but a matter of cooperation between law enforcement agencies about which I don’t know anything’ - Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs spokesman The recent abduction of...

Two Vietnamese songwriters who face up to 20 years in jail for writing songs criticising their government should be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said today, ahead of...

Amnesty International today welcomed the news that a British arms dealer Gary Hyde had been found guilty on charges of illicit arms deals. The international arms dealer and former director of York...

Amnesty International has condemned a suicide bombing earlier today at the Eid Gah mosque in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province in Afghanistan. At least 40 people were killed in the attack as...

News that Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has won the Sakharov Prize – EU award for human rights and freedom of thought – came as her health deteriorated due to a hunger strike in protest...

Amnesty International returned from a month-long mission to Ivory Coast with reports of torture, sexual abuse, state-sponsored militia attacks and death in custody from a country still reeling from...

All peaceful activists and other prisoners of conscience detained in Syria must be set free, Amnesty International said today after a mass amnesty was granted ahead of the Eid al-Adha religious...

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. Europe...

Demonstrators beaten by police while in custody Trumped-up charges against a group of human rights defenders in Kenya including Amnesty International staff and volunteers must be dropped, the...

Claims that a Russian opposition MP’s assistant was abducted in Ukraine and forced to return to Russia where he has alleged he was tortured or otherwise ill-treated must be investigated, Amnesty...