The Sudanese authorities must release over 50 protestors arrested during a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the capital Khartoum, Amnesty International said today. Police and Agents of the...

The Yemeni authorities must end deadly night raids and other attacks on protesters, Amnesty International said today, after one protester was killed and around 100 injured in the capital Sana’a late...

Amnesty International has called for an urgent investigation by the Egyptian authorities after receiving video footage from inside a morgue showing the bodies of scores of prisoners, some of whom had...

Almost half of young Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights (aged 15-30) in the UK do not believe they are treated equally to men. The findings come in a new poll, published today...

An ethnic Uighur website manager who was sentenced to seven years in jail in China after a secret trial is the latest in a series of Uighur writers imprisoned for peaceful expression of cultural or...

685 Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights killed in 2010 alone – many victims suffer “exceptional brutality” including rape, mutilation and dismemberment On the eve of...

Amnesty International has today (7 March) called on the Saudi Arabian government to allow peaceful protests after the authorities confirmed a ban on all demonstrations in the Kingdom. On Saturday, The...

Amnesty International has urged the Turkish authorities to review the use of a law on “incitement to hatred or hostility” after eight journalists were arrested last week for holding membership of...

Amnesty International today (4 March) warned of a deepening humanitarian crisis in the Ivory Coast after electricity and water supplies were cut to large parts of the country earlier this week...

Libyan medical teams have told Amnesty International how they came under fire from pro-Gaddafi security forces yesterday while carrying out their medical work. Two medics from the Libyan Red Crescent...