Japan’s decision to hang three prisoners after nearly two years without executions in the country is a retrograde step, Amnesty International said today. Justice Minister Toshio Ogawa authorised the...

‘It is deeply disturbing that Mali’s new military leaders have said nothing about the violence taking place under their noses’ - Salvatore Saguès Amnesty is calling for an investigation into attacks...

Call on Pope to speak out after activists’ phone lines cut Cuban human rights activists are facing a surge in harassment in a bid to silence them during the Pope's visit, Amnesty International said...

The rejection last night in the House of Lords of proposed amendments to the government’s Legal Aid Bill, is a huge blow to justice which will place the law beyond the reach of human rights victims...

Ahead of the meeting of heads of state at the Arab League Summit in Baghdad tomorrow (29 March), Philip Luther , Amnesty International’s interim Middle East and North Africa Director, is available for...

Report delivers message to executing countries - 'You are out of step with the rest of the world on this issue’ (Salil Shetty) Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate...

Waleed Abu al-Khair stopped from travelling to New York A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States...

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlist for the 2012 Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year. This year’s competition attracted over 3,000 participants from 150 different schools from...

The execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana must be halted and an official moratorium on capital punishment established in India, Amnesty International said today in an open letter to the country’

Amnesty has names of over 7,200 people now reported killed Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights...