Reza Khandan has campaigned for his wife’s release and against women being forced to wear the veil in Iran Responding to the arrest in Iran this morning of Reza Khandan, the husband of prominent...

Those being targeted include lawyers and activists associated with the campaign against forced wearing of the hijab ‘The human rights situation in Iran has reached crisis point’ - Philip Luther The...

Two women in Malaysia have been caned after they were convicted of attempting to have consensual same-sex sexual relations with each other. The women were canned six times each in a courtroom in...

Responding to the news that Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of breaching Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan...

39-year-old man executed by firing squad this morning - had originally received a life sentence First execution since 2016 is ‘a crushing setback to abolition hopes’ Responding to the execution of a...

Amnesty International has said it is deeply concerned at the reported arrest of two investigative journalists in Northern Ireland. Journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey, who worked on the...

‘What the Iranian authorities are doing to Nazanin is exceptionally cruel’ - Kate Allen Responding to reports from her husband that the jailed British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has...

In response to reports that two members of Hong Kong pro-democracy party Demosistō were detained and interrogated by Chinese state security officials when visiting mainland China in separate incidents...

A blistering report released by the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar (FFM) today brought yet more damning evidence of the Myanmar security forces’ atrocity crimes against the Rohingya...

Responding to news reports that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been returned to jail after her three-day “furlough” release from Evin Prison in Iran, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director...