A death row prisoner in Nigeria is due to be executed by firing squad later this week after prison authorities dragged him to the gallows where they hanged four other men on Monday night, Amnesty...

African American woman’s trial was held with overwhelmingly white jury Amnesty International has described the planned 500th execution in the US state of Texas tonight as a “shameful milestone” and is...

However, concerns expressed over separate ‘Proposition 8’ ruling Amnesty International has this afternoon welcomed a decision by the US Supreme Court to strike down a provision in a law that...

The Syrian authorities must drop charges against five human rights activists whose "patently unfair" terror trial was today put on hold for another two months, Amnesty International said. The five men...

Ahead of an event in Westminster today, organised to mark 15 years since the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement Amnesty International said the delay in delivering a Bill of Rights was...

Homophobic attacks and harassment across sub-Saharan Africa are reaching dangerous levels, Amnesty International warned in a new report out today. Making Love a Crime: Criminalisation of same-sex...

Snowden’s right to seek asylum must be respected The US authorities must not prosecute anyone for disclosing information about the government’s human rights violations, Amnesty International has said...

Amnesty International has received credible reports that the authorities in the state of Edo in southern Nigerian have hanged four men in Benin City Prison today - the first known executions in the...

Amnesty International has launched a new Chinese-language website containing research reports, articles and blog entries on the organisation’s research and activism around the world. While the site is...

As hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets in cities across Brazil, it's clear that the country’s police are ill-prepared to deal with protests on this scale. Renata Neder, Human Rights...