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Torture or other ill-treatment reported in 141 countries in past five years, and in at least 79 already in 2014, with 27 different types of torture during 2013-14

One month ahead of the start of the World Cup, Amnesty International has warned of a crackdown on freedom of expression as Brazil moves to pass a ‘terrorism’ law that could criminalise

Responding to photographs which have emerged which appear to show a UK serviceman posing with a dead Taliban fighter, Joanne Mariner, Director of Law and Policy at Amnesty International, said:

Damning testimonies gathered by Amnesty International reveal that the Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school

Responding to a London High Court ruling that women from Northern Ireland are not entitled to free abortions on NHS in England, Amnesty International Northern Ireland Campaigner, Grainne Teggart sa

The Chinese authorities are using trumped-up charges to target a prominent journalist who has been detained for disclosing state secrets, Amnesty International said today.

A new investigation into the conflict in South Sudan has revealed horrific atrocities committed by both sides, with targeted attacks on civilians due to their ethnicity and perceived political affi

The UK government today played host to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni less than four months after he passed a draconian anti-gay law in Uganda which carries life imprisonment for people accused

The Chinese authorities must immediately release all those detained for trying to mark the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Amnesty International said, following a spate of detentions in the past w

The Belarusian government has scored an own goal by cracking down on civil society in a bid to silence dissenters ahead of the Ice Hockey World Championship, which opens on 9 May in Minsk, said Amn