‘For police officers to use torture "for fun" is despicable. These are abhorrent acts’ - Hazel Galang-Folli

With one week to go until the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Amnesty International UK’s director Kate Allen will visit Moscow to deliver a petition of hundreds of thousands of signatures

Christian and Muslim civilians in Baoro and Bossemptle in north-west Central African Republic are in imminent danger of attack because of the very strong presence of anti-balaka militias in towns where…

Amnesty International has welcomed comments by UK Foreign Secretary William Hague today that the Home Office is looking into the possibility of resettling some of the must vulnerable Syrian refugees, but warned…

The jailing of prominent Chinese legal scholar and activist Xu Zhiyong is a travesty and he should be released immediately, Amnesty International said today.

Pakistan must immediately and unconditionally release a man sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws today, Amnesty International said.

The Maldives must immediately put a stop to plans to resume executions for the first time in 60 years, Amnesty International said today.

Responding to news that two planned performances of a comedy about the Bible due to take place in Northern Ireland have been cancelled by a local council seemingly because the production would cause o