· Near 100% increase in security arrests over four years · Jail for man who re-tweeted joke and bookseller who sold ‘wrong books’ South Korea has seen a dramatic increase in the abuse of national...
Amnesty International has criticised the Foreign Secretary William Hague for his stance on the vote today over whether Palestinians are to become a “non-member observer state” at the United Nations...
L-R: Paul Wheelhouse MSP, Dr Richard Dixon, Kathy Galloway, Siobhan Reardon On Wednesday 28 November, Scotland's Minister for Environment and Climate Change Paul Wheelhouse announced the first round...
In the last 24 hours Amnesty International supporters in the UK have sent 15,000 messages to the Ugandan president, prime minister and opposition leader demanding the country’s parliament drops a...
Amnesty International is calling for justice for all victims of the 1998-99 Kosovo war after three high-ranking members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) were acquitted of war crimes at a retrial...
‘All states with a troop presence in Afghanistan must follow the UK’s example’ - Polly Truscott Amnesty International has welcomed a UK Ministry of Defence announcement today that it will maintain its...
Case was ‘trial of the Arab Spring’ - Qatari activist A life sentence handed today to a Qatari poet has all the hallmarks of an outrageous betrayal of free speech, Amnesty International has said...
Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 December 2012 Amnesty to record four festive podcasts in acclaimed Secret Comedy Podcast series (Guardian Editor’s choice, Metro pick of the podcasts) Members of the public are...
News that communications are being targeted by the Syrian authorities raises the alarming prospect that they are seeking to prevent the world from learning what is happening amid increasingly intense...
Kuwait in ‘turmoil’ as Sheikh Sabah visits UK Ahead of the Emir of Kuwait’s meeting with the Prime Minister David Cameron later today, Amnesty International Kuwait researcher Drewery Dyke said: “With...