Amnesty International is calling on Hong Kong police to exercise restraint after a violent reaction to weekend protests where rounds of tear gas and rubber bullets were fired on the city’s streets...

Amnesty has called rampant US gun violence a ‘human rights crisis’ ‘This is an emergency. It will continue to be an emergency until our lawmakers treat it as such’ - Ernest Coverson Amnesty...

Hong Kong police must exercise extreme caution in any deployment of water cannons in upcoming protests, Amnesty International said today, warning that using the powerful weapons in the city’s densely...

Proactiva Open Arms rescue ship has 121 people onboard in sweltering heat and overcrowded conditions Some of those on the vessel have reportedly been tortured in detention in Libya ‘Politicians are...

14 peaceful activists arrested since the beginning of the year Amnesty International is calling for the Côte d’Ivoire authorities to end their persistent attacks against civil society activists and...

‘This scandalous decision is the latest full-frontal assault on the right to freedom of expression in Turkey’ - Milena Buyum Following an Ankara court’s decision to block 136 web addresses - including...

Responding to the Taliban’s threats to attack political campaign rallies during the presidential election season in Afghanistan, Zaman Sultani, Amnesty International’s South Asia Researcher, said:...

Amnesty recently described US gun violence situation as ‘human rights crisis’ ‘There are too many guns, and insufficient laws today to keep track of them all’ - Ernest Coverson Responding to Donald...

Following the release of Mauritanian blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir, who was sentenced to death and held in arbitrary detention for more than five years after publishing a blog on caste discrimination...

At least three injured Islamic Movement in Nigeria detainees have died in police custody 15 injured protesters, including minors, held incommunicado for weeks Police raid government hospital and...