Somyot Prueksakasemsuk ironically arrested under the very laws he had just launched a petition to have reviewed Magazine editor and human rights defender Somyot Prueksakasemsuk must be immediately...

Lord Morrow’s Private Members Bill: Amnesty welcomes anti-trafficking measures but warns against diversion of resources Amnesty International has welcomed steps to tackle human trafficking in Lord...

Two Australian Olympians gave their support to Amnesty International this week and then issued a call to sports stars from both Australia and further afield to follow their lead. Sally Foster, who...

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s conditional moratorium on executions of death row prisoners leaves at least 38 people still at great risk of execution, Amnesty International said today. Last Friday...

The Libyan authorities must put an end to the harassment and intimidation of two sisters allegedly accused of supporting the country’s former leader, Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi. Hasna Shaeeb and her...

The Egyptian government should immediately withdraw its invitation to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and arrest him if he travels to Cairo, Amnesty International said today. Omar Al-Bashir is due...

The acquittal of Pastor Yousef Naderkhani in a re-trial in Iran’s northern Gilan province demonstrates just why the Iranian authorities must guarantee the rights of all religious minorities in Iran...

‘The UK seems determined to keep these issues under wraps’ - Tara Lyle Amnesty International has welcomed a vote by the European Parliament in Strasbourg today endorsing - by 568 votes (34 against, 77...

Amnesty International today expressed concern that recent televised “confessions” by five Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and seven men on Iranian state television may...

Charges against two journalists detained after they applied for permission to hold a peaceful protest over the executions of nine death row inmates must be dropped by the Gambian authorities, Amnesty...