Mass trial of 61 workers and trade unionists who protested against unsafe conditions gets underway today At least 52 workers have already died at the site of Istanbul’s third airport Thirty-one...

The damaging and cruel policy of indefinite detention must be brought to an immediate end, Amnesty International said today as a bill that calls time on the indefinite detention of people under...

‘This case is just the latest example of how authorities are misusing anti-smuggling laws to target activists and criminalise rescue’ - Kondylia Gougou Four humanitarian workers arrested following...

‘Death commissions’ in 32 cities sent at least 5,000 prisoners to their deaths in mass purge of dissidents - Iran’s current minister of justice one of those involved Forensic Amnesty investigation...

‘All businesses should be following Airbnb's example’ - Andy Slaughter Amnesty International will be taking a Christmas hamper of “Israeli stolen goods” to the Foreign Office on Monday 3 December (3pm...

‘The arrest of two of the most widely respected journalists in Northern Ireland has sent a shiver of fear through media in the region.’ – Patrick Corrigan Freedom of the press is under threat in...

Seven men convicted of murdering Honduran indigenous and environmental human rights defender “The level of danger facing activists worldwide has reached crisis point” – Kate Allen Seven men have been...

Amnesty International activists will protest at the Indian High Commission tomorrow (Friday 30 November) to call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to stop trying to crush human rights organisations in...

A charge of “insulting the national flag” against prominent Vietnamese human rights activist Huynh Thuc Vy amounts to an attack on freedom of expression by the authorities and must be dropped, Amnesty...

Responding to the guilty verdict handed to three policemen for the murder of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos in the Philippines, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and...