EU’s ‘cruel’ policy of blocking Mediterranean escape route is key factor 6,000 refugees and migrants trapped in Libyan detention centres where abuse is rife International Libya conference in Sicily...

Bangladesh’s new Digital Security Act is an attack on freedom of expression that is even more repressive than the legislation it has replaced, Amnesty International said in new briefing published...

The Human Rights Act has been absolutely key to the big justice fights of the last 20 years Amnesty said today, on the 20 th anniversary of the act receiving Royal Assent, as the organisation...

In response to President Trump’s Proclamation to limit the rights of people seeking asylum along the southern border of the US, Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “President...

Dominic Grieve QC MP has warned that Brexit risks undermining peace and human rights in Northern Ireland, and he fears a hard border with the rest of Ireland is inevitable if the UK’s exit from the EU...

Hundreds of civilians killed in recent fighting, including in coalition airstrikes on a vegetable market and road checkpoint ‘Placing gunmen on a hospital roof blurs lines which should never be...

Responding to the news that human rights lawyer Benjamin Ramos gunned down by still unidentified men yesterday (6 November) in the Philippines, Ritz Lee Santos III, Amnesty International Philippines...

Responding to news that the cases of 12 condemned men from Saudi Arabia’s persecuted Shi’a minority have been transferred to the country’s Presidency of State Security - a body under the direct author...

Responding to the decision by an Istanbul court to further postpone the trial of Amnesty International Turkey’s Honorary Chair, Taner Kılıç, former Director, İdil Eser, and nine other human rights...

Group detained for supposedly conducting a gay marriage Arrests come days after a Tanzanian politician announced a taskforce to hunt down LGBTI people Ten men have been arrested on the Tanzanian...