The Venezuelan authorities are involved in a campaign of intimidation against its people, Amnesty International said in a new report published today, which details security forces smashing their way...

Amnesty researchers are on Manus Island and available for interview Amnesty International researchers have been on Manus Island for several days interviewing a wide range of people about the human...

Fatal police shootings in food markets and people’s homes in attempt to punish election protesters One man was dragged by police to a sewage ditch and forced to drink from it “What we are witnessing...

Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by the High Court in Belfast today to overturn a decision by the Police Service of Northern Ireland not to take further steps to identify and prosecute...

In response to the conclusion of the coffin assault case , at the Middleburg High Court earlier today (27 October), Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa’s Executive Director, said:...

Burundi becomes the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court in a clear attempt to stop the Court’s investigations in the country Withdrawal “does not in any way absolve Burundi...

Amnesty International is urging the Supreme Court to change Northern Ireland’s abortion law as a three-day hearing in London concludes today. Amnesty is an intervenor in the case which is considering...

Case follows separate one of ten human rights activists which began in Istanbul yesterday Taner Kılıç has already been behind bars since early June ‘The Turkish authorities have repeatedly and...

“Any argument in favour of secrecy has just crumbled” - Grainne Teggart Amnesty International has called on civil servants in Northern Ireland to release a year-old report on Northern Ireland’s...

As the presidential election re-run takes place in Kenya today (26 October), Amnesty International is urging the police – who have been heavily deployed in opposition strongholds – to exercise...