‘To understand how the ban will work, it is enough to look at China’ - Denis Krivosheev A new law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin banning online anonymisers and virtual private networks...

Proposals by Italian authorities to send warships to police Libyan territorial waters are a “shameful” attempt to circumvent their duty to rescue refugees and migrants at sea, Amnesty International...

In response to an Istanbul court’s ruling earlier tonight to conditionally release seven of the 12 imprisoned Cumhuriyet journalists and the continuation of the pre-trial detention of five others...

The security plan announced in Venezuela ahead of the elections for the Constituent Assembly this Sunday is laying the groundwork for a new wave of mass human rights violations, Amnesty International...

‘The global outcry over Turkey’s human rights crackdown is growing louder by the day’ - Kate Allen Amnesty UK has welcomed a call from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for the release of detained...

‘Israeli forces started firing stun grenades, tear gas and sponge-tipped bullets into a peaceful crowd’ - Magdalena Mughrabi Israeli forces attacked peaceful crowds of Palestinians as they gathered at...

The rape of a teenage girl ordered by a Pakistan village council in ‘revenge’ for a rape allegedly committed by her brother is the latest in a long series of horrific incidents and must lead to urgent...

Fifty years on from the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in England and Wales, there is still a long way to go to achieve full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...

Following tweets from President Donald Trump announcing that the USA would no longer allow transgender individuals to serve in the country’s military, Tarah Demant, director of Amnesty International...

Car manufacturers must be more transparent to ensure supply chains are not tainted by human rights abuses Responding to the UK Government’s commitment to ban all new petrol and diesel cars and vans...