A charge of “insulting the national flag” against prominent Vietnamese human rights activist Huynh Thuc Vy amounts to an attack on freedom of expression by the authorities and must be dropped, Amnesty...

Responding to the guilty verdict handed to three policemen for the murder of 17-year-old Kian delos Santos in the Philippines, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and...

Responding to reports that the United Nations “covered up” information implicating senior Congolese military and security officers in the killing of UN investigators Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in...

Two children amongst 12 people stranded at sea Twelve refugees and migrants who have been stranded in the Central Mediterranean on a Spanish fishing boat for almost a week must be allowed to disembark...

Responding to the violent attack against a 15-year-old Syrian refugee at a school in Huddersfield last month and an outpouring of public support for him, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK's...

Amnesty International is taking legal advice in order to revoke the export licence of Israel-based NSO Group, after it was revealed the cyber firm’s spyware had been used in an attempt to spy on an...

Interviews with 200 people travelling as part of the migrant caravans Unofficial asylum waitlist contains name of around 4,320 people “If Mexico agrees to do the US government’s dirty work, it is...

Google’s plans to launch a censored search app in China fly in the face of the company’s professed values and don’t have the support of many Google employees, Amnesty International said today, as the...

‘Once again, we call on the Government to establish an independent, judge-led inquiry’ - Rachel Logan Responding to a quietly-released written statement last week from Theresa May in response to the...

“The whole world will be watching Argentina during the G20 Summit” – Erika Guevara-Rosas The Argentine authorities must respect and guarantee the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly...