News that Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has won the Sakharov Prize – EU award for human rights and freedom of thought – came as her health deteriorated due to a hunger strike in protest...

Amnesty International has condemned a suicide bombing earlier today at the Eid Gah mosque in Maymana, the capital of Faryab province in Afghanistan. At least 40 people were killed in the attack as...

Amnesty International today welcomed the news that a British arms dealer Gary Hyde had been found guilty on charges of illicit arms deals. The international arms dealer and former director of York...

Demonstrators beaten by police while in custody Trumped-up charges against a group of human rights defenders in Kenya including Amnesty International staff and volunteers must be dropped, the...

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. Europe...

All peaceful activists and other prisoners of conscience detained in Syria must be set free, Amnesty International said today after a mass amnesty was granted ahead of the Eid al-Adha religious...

Amnesty International has declared the attempt to remove a Syrian national to Damascus from the UK, deeply alarming. In a letter to the Home Secretary Theresa May, Amnesty called on the UK government...

‘All these teachers did was to call for a strike in their role as trade union leaders’ - Philip Luther Amnesty International has denounced a decision to uphold prison sentences against two former...

Claims that a Russian opposition MP’s assistant was abducted in Ukraine and forced to return to Russia where he has alleged he was tortured or otherwise ill-treated must be investigated, Amnesty...

Progress on human rights in Tunisia following the ousting of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is being rolled back by the current Tunisian government, Amnesty International warned today, as the country marks...