Commenting after Ethiopian journalist and Amnesty International prisoner of conscience Eskinder Nega walked out of prison a free man today, as part of a government pardon of 746 prisoners, Sarah...

Responding to a Court of Appeal judgement that two Niger Delta communities cannot have their case against oil giant Shell heard in the UK because the parent company cannot be held liable for the...

Legislation would require NGOs to ask permission to perform their ‘basic functions’ – a process which could take up to nine months NGOs would be forced to pay a 25% tax on foreign donations A new bill...

The Indonesian authorities are failing to protect the transgender women who were publicly humiliated by police in North Aceh last month, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty’s Indonesia office...

Commenting on reports that James Gatdet Dak, the former spokesman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement – In Opposition, has been sentenced to death for treason, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty...

Canadian-Iranian environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami is just the latest suspicious ‘suicide’ in detention ‘It would have been near impossible for him to commit suicide’ - Magdalena Mughrabi In...

Tamimi’s trial set to go ahead tomorrow - she faces up to ten years in jail ‘As an unarmed girl, Ahed posed no threat’ - Magdalena Mughrabi The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage...

Asma Jahangir was a brave champion of human rights who leaves behind a powerful legacy, Amnesty International said today, following the 66-year-old Pakistani lawyer’s sudden death in Lahore on Sunday...

Mohamed al-Kassas hasn’t been seen since security forces raided his home last night ‘We are deeply concerned that Mohamed al-Kassas might have been forcibly disappeared and subjected to torture’ -...

He was arrested after writing about the Arab Spring, jailed for 18 years and named a ‘prisoner of conscience’ by Amnesty ‘He should not have spent a single day behind bars’ - Sarah Jackson Commenting...