With less than a week left in his term, President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning today.

Brazil’s chaotic prison system is in crisis with more than 120 inmate deaths reported since 1 January, Amnesty International said today after the confirmation of a further 26 killings inside

The UK is leading a Europe-wide “race to the bottom” with Orwellian counter-terrorism measures that seriously threaten human rights, Amnesty International warned today (17 January) as i

Husband Richard to be joined by campaigners with ‘Free Nazanin’ placards

For years, I woke up wondering: will I be executed today, tomorrow, in a few months or in a few years?” – death row prisoner

Hangings could go ahead despite international ban on executions for drugs offences

In response to yesterday’s killing of Madalitso Pensulo, a 19-year-old man with albinism in Mlonda Village in Thyolo District in Malawi, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for So