'Forced anal examinations are abhorrent and amount to torture' - Najia Bounaim Six men arrested for "promoting sexual deviancy" and "debauchery" on social media will be subjected to invasive forensic...

'This resolution is a victory for Yemenis' - Anna Neistat A resolution passed by the UN Human Rights Council today, authorising the establishment of group of international experts to investigate...

More than 400,000 people have fled Burundi since conflict began in April 2015 Burundian government urges refugees to return despite ‘horrific abuses’ still taking place in the country “One day they...

The UN Security Council must do everything it can to end the crimes against humanity and ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya people in Myanmar, including by imposing a comprehensive arms embargo...

Prominent critic of Russian occupation sentenced to two years in penal colony ‘It looks like in Crimea reprisals will continue until there is no one left to criticise the occupation’ - Oksana...

Responding to the Saudi Arabian government’s announcement yesterday that women will be allowed to drive, Philip Luther, Amnesty International's Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and...

Responding to the news that at least 42 people were executed in Iraq yesterday on “terrorism” charges, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International's Middle East Research Director, said: “Yesterday's mass...

The Hong Kong government must drop prosecutions aimed at having a chilling effect on freedom of expression in the territory, Amnesty International said ahead of the third anniversary of the pro...

Lawyer Khalid Ali, leading rival to President Sisi, given jail term in bid to stop him running in 2018 election ‘His conviction on this absurd charge must be quashed’ - Najia Bounaim Today’s...

EU countries have fulfilled just 28.7% of the relocation target Two countries have failed to relocate a single asylum seeker Only one EU country, Malta, has fulfilled its quota European countries have...