“Declaring a state of emergency is not a license to commit human rights violations. After more than a year of prisoner amnesties and releases, the overall number of political prisoners in Burma is...

The UAE authorities must immediately and unconditionally release two prominent human rights lawyers arrested in recent days, Amnesty International said. Dr Mohamed ‘Abdullah al-Roken, a long-time...

Amnesty International has condemned the exiling of a prominent blogger in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and is warning of a decline in human rights in the UAE after a new wave of arrests in the...

Amnesty International has today called on President Obama to demonstrate true leadership during crucial negotiations on the Arms by rejecting proposals that will severely undermine human rights. US...

The Committees on Arms Export Controls (CAEC) report on strategic export controls highlights the urgent need for the UK to better identify the risk of arms transfers being used for repression or to...

Reports of mass killings in the Sunni town of al-Treimseh (or Tremseh) are further proof of the urgent need for UN monitors to be granted full and immediate access to all parts of the country to...

‘The police told me “If we kill you we’ll chuck your body in the canal and no one will ever find you and we won’t get punished”’ - Torture survivor, 2012 Torture, beatings and other ill-treatment are...

‘Like many others in Bahrain, Nabeel Rajab is a prisoner of conscience, jailed solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression’ - Ann Harrison The Bahraini authorities should...

The London Assembly decision to condemn the appointment of Dow Chemical as an Olympic Partner is further testament of the wide-spread sense of betrayal felt by Londoners and people across the world...

UN monitors must have access to all detention centres and political prisoners in the country Amnesty International and three other NGOs have today called on the United Nations Security Council to...