In response to the guilty verdict in the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director, said: “This hideous...

Responding to the attacks by Rohingya militants in Burma which have left at least 71 people, including 12 security personnel, dead, Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director...

For the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the state’s capital sentencing statute, Florida has executed a prisoner, killing Mark Asay via lethal injection. The execution happened late...

Quarterly migration report shows that 27,817 people were detained in the last year “The sheer numbers illustrate how the detention process has become normalised, when it ought to be an exceptional...

Reacting to the final report issued today by the Kofi Annan-led Advisory Commission on Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: “People in...

Use the slider below to see satellite imagery showing devastation in Raqqa - June/July 2017 Thousands of civilians trapped in Raqqa in Syria are coming under fire from three different sides, said...

The Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and their rivals, the de facto Hamas administration in Gaza, have both launched a clampdown on dissent in recent months that has seen journalists from...

Responding to the Indian Supreme Court’s verdict today that the practice of talaq-e-biddat (known as ‘triple talaq’) is unconstitutional, Asmita Basu, Programmes Director at Amnesty International...

FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2017, 3-8pm An exhibition in Manchester next month is set to feature the real-life stories of women who have been imprisoned in Syria during the uprising and conflict of the past...

Planned lethal injection of Mark Asay comes as US executions at lowest levels for decades New report highlights multiple failings in Florida’s capital punishment system Amnesty International is...