As the presidential election re-run takes place in Kenya today (26 October), Amnesty International is urging the police – who have been heavily deployed in opposition strongholds – to exercise...

Director of Amnesty Turkey, İdil Eser, and nine other activists were arrested in July Campaigners to press for release of Amnesty Turkey's Chair, Taner Kılıç, whose separate trial begins tomorrow...

Amnesty will monitor trials of human rights activists in Istanbul and Izmir Protesters in London will mount vigil at Turkish Embassy on morning of trial ‘It should not take the judge more than half an...

Up to 12 prisoners packed into windowless, four-person train compartments - some from Soviet period - and only allowed to use the toilet once every five or six hours Prisoners are ‘disappeared’ while...

‘This routine abuse of the veto has become the equivalent of a green light for war crimes’ - Sherine Tadros Responding to news that Russia has used its veto power at the United Nations Security...

Responding to reports that the Chinese authorities have released Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller with Swedish nationality who went missing in Thailand in 2015 and later appeared in Chinese custody...

Satellite imagery, videos and dozens of testimonies from city of Tuz Khurmatu reveal how Kurdish neighbourhoods targeted in resurgence of ethnic conflict At least 11 civilians killed, homes looted and...

Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali’s death sentence comes after psychological torture, false confessions and grossly unfair trial The Iranian authorities must quash a death sentence imposed on Iranian...

“The judges of the Supreme Court have a chance to put right centuries of human rights abuse. We urge them to take it” – Grainne Teggart Amnesty International will be an intervenor in a significant...

The discovery of the body of activist Santiago Maldonado marks a tragic day for human rights and justice in Argentina, Amnesty International said today. Maldonado was forcibly disappeared following a...