A shocking new report from Amnesty International published today reveals an alarming culture of persecution in Armenia against both critics of the ruling regime and the country’s lesbian, gay...

A flogging sentence against a 15-year-old rape victim in the Maldives has been annulled, but the girl should never have been prosecuted at all, Amnesty International said. Yesterday, a Maldives High...

A record total of seven productions shortlisted this year – the 10th anniversary of Amnesty International’s Freedom of Expression Award Amnesty International today announced a record number of entries...

Amnesty International has experts able to discuss the case of US Army Private Bradley Manning, who is expected to be sentenced today at a military trial in the USA for leaking classified information...

Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images ‘Bradley Manning should be shown clemency in recognition of his motives for acting as he did’ - Widney Brown President Obama should commute US Army Private Bradley...

‘What would be the point of having a UN team of experts in the country if they are not allowed to access the sites of the alleged attacks…?’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui In response to the publication of a...

© Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images The pressure to destroy documents placed on the Guardian newspaper by the UK authorities represents a threat to freedom of expression, the right to information and the...

USA has supplied military rifles and machineguns as recently as June All governments must suspend the transfer of weapons of the type used by Egypt’s security forces in violent dispersals and...

The Edward Snowden journalist Glenn Greenwald was clearly being targeted by the detention The partner of a Guardian journalist who was detained earleir today while in transit at a London airport was...

‘There seems to be little doubt the security forces have been acting with blatant disregard for human life’ - Philip Luther There must be a full and impartial investigation into the violent dispersal...