Amnesty International today (9 July) called for the immediate and unconditional release of two human rights defenders facing trial in Angola on charges linked to an attack on the Togolese football...

Amnesty International today issued its reaction to news from the Iranian embassy in London that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be executed by stoning. Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen...

The future of a long-standing prisoner of conscience is expected to be decided in the next few days – and Amnesty International believes the humble fax could hold the key to his release. Mexican...

Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 are urging the Russian authorities to drop the charges against the organisers of Forbidden Art 2006, an exhibition which featured Soviet and post-Soviet art works...

Amnesty International has said any deal over the release of a nuclear scientist, Igor Sutyagin, which requires him to leave Russia against his wishes will amount to forcible exile, which is prohibited...

Amnesty International calls on the Cuban government to immediately free all prisoners of conscience, after authorities yesterday said 52 prisoners will be released. Five of the 52 detainees, whose...

Amnesty International will today join with victims and survivors of institutional child abuse in order to hand over a letter to Northern Ireland's First Minister and Deputy First Minister, calling for...

Amnesty International has called on the Peruvian government to revoke its decision to expel a British catholic activist, who received an MBE from the Queen for his work. He has spent the past ten...

In response to the announcement regarding gay asylum seekers’ right to remain, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director, said: “Around the globe lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender...

Amnesty International is calling on the Zimbabwean government to release an activist who is being detained after he exposed human rights violations in the country’s Marange diamond fields. Farai...