‘It was a vintage year for human rights journalism’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International UK has announced the winners of its prestigious annual media awards, this year celebrating its 20th year. The...

Top UK journalists will tonight (24 May) join together in a ‘mass tweet’ to the President of Azerbaijan, urging President Aliyev to immediately and unconditionally release jailed newspaper editor...

Amnesty International is concerned by the Iranian government’s continuing clampdown on dissent, including arbitrary arrests and the torture or other ill-treatment of people who express views opposed...

Authorities in Jamaica must bring to justice those responsible for the human rights violations during an operation to arrest a suspected gang leader in Tivoli Gardens last year, which resulted in the...

Amnesty International today (23 May) responded to the report of the public inquiry into allegations of security force collusion in the murder of the solicitor Rosemary Nelson. Halya Gowan, who...

With hundreds killed, UN referral to International Criminal Court needed New European Union sanctions on President Bashar al-Assad of Syria should prompt the UN and Arab League to take tougher action...

21 people publicly caned for gambling The Indonesian government must end the use of caning as a form of punishment and repeal the laws that allow it in Aceh province, Amnesty International said today...

London man Shaker Aamer held without trial at camp for over nine years Amnesty International has written to the Prime Minister David Cameron calling on him to raise the case of the Guantánamo detainee...

Photographs available on request Amnesty International’s Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year reached its climax this afternoon with the unveiling of the 2011 winners at a prestigious ceremony in...

Sentence passed by unfair military court Amnesty International has condemned the death sentence handed down by a Cairo military court against a 17-year-old boy, warning that unfair military trials are...