President Andrzej Duda must veto amendments adopted by the Polish parliament today which, if signed into law, will effectively subject the judiciary to the political control of the government, Amnesty...

Only family members explicitly allowed to join adult refugees in the UK are their spouse or partner and their dependent children under the age of 18 Child refugees who arrive alone in the UK have no...

Unimaginable acts of violence have killed tens of thousands, with thousands more subjected to sexual violence and four million forced to flee their homes Sustained international action is urgently...

Our new report reveals the human cost of the UK's policies of using routine and indefinite immigration detention.

Responding to news that 38 people were executed in Iraq today for ‘terrorism’ offences, Lynn Maalouf, Middle East Research Director at Amnesty International, said: “By carrying out yet another mass...

Commenting on the Kenyan Supreme Court’s ruling that mandatory death sentencing is no longer lawful in the country, Oluwatosin Popoola, Amnesty International’s Adviser on the Death Penalty, said:...

Responding to the news that an El Salvador court will not release a woman who has been forced to spend a decade behind bars after suffering a miscarriage, Amnesty International’s Americas Director...

Call comes after Joint Oireachtas Committee in Republic of Ireland votes in support of repeal of the Eighth Amendment and expanded access to abortion Amnesty International has today welcomed the...

Responding to the Philippines Congress’ approval of President Rodrigo Duterte's request to extend martial law in the Mindanao region until the end of 2018 in order to “eradicate” Islamist militants...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s websites targeted in effort to ‘expunge’ all trace of the Kremlin critic from Russian politics and society ‘The Russian authorities are clearly targeting Open Russia in a bid to...