‘Mikhail Kosenko’s only transgression was to peacefully protest and speak his mind’ Sergei Nikitin

Responding to news that the UK is due to receive the first Syrian refugees today as part of a resettlement scheme Amnesty International UK’s Refugee Programme Director, Jan Shaw, said:

‘This is the largest single batch of simultaneous death sentences we’ve seen … anywhere in the world’

The Chinese authorities must end the persecution of all those trying to remember the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Amnesty International said, after a man was jailed for 18 months

‘The decision to block Twitter is an unprecedented attack on internet freedom and freedom of expression in Turkey’ Andrew Gardner

Amnesty International welcomed the announcement today that three employees of security firm G4S would be charged with manslaughter in the Mubenga case, but said this should not mean their employers

Amnesty expert available for interview

A violent attack yesterday by a nationalist member of parliament against the director of one of Ukraine’s leading TV channels must be urgently investigated, and those responsible brought to j

The Taiwanese security forces must protect and respect human rights in any response to the hundreds of protestors that have occupied the nation’s parliament, Amnesty International said today.

The arbitrary arrest and detention of two prominent campaigners is an attempt to silence criticism and divert the spotlight from ongoing state abuses, human rights monitors said in a joint statemen