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A Nigerian 31-year old man who was sentenced to death as a juvenile has expressed his happiness at being released from prison and reunited with his family after such a long time, following a...
‘These proposals are dangerous and should be dropped’ - Tara Lyle Responding to an announcement in today’s Queen’s Speech that the government will bring forward a Bill to allow new secret justice...
Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to immediately renew the visa and press credentials of the expelled Al-Jazeera English China correspondent, Melissa Chan. The channel has...
21 other activists, including Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja are also POCs Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of Nabeel Rajab, the director of the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, who...
EMBARGOED PRESS CONFERENCE 23 MAY, FARRINGDON The Amnesty International Report 2012, will be released on Thursday 24 May at 00:01 The 400-page State of the World’s Human Rights report provides a...
Romania’s continuing economic challenges that have seen two governments fall in fewer than three months are all the more reason for the authorities at all levels to close legal loopholes that affect...
A pledge by China that it will allow Chen Guangcheng to go abroad with his family so he can study seems empty as long as the Chinese state keeps the activist’s wider family in detention and retaliates...
The inauguration of Vladimir Putin as the next President of the Russian Federation presents him with the opportunity to put human rights at the heart of his agenda for the next six years. John...
The Libyan authorities must not suppress freedom of expression in the name of protecting the 17 February Revolution, Amnesty International said following the adoption of a law criminalising the...
A Tunis court’s decision today to fine a TV boss for “spreading information which can disturb the public order” after he screened the animated French movie “Persepolis” is a sign of the continuing...