More than one million supporters have called for ‘politically-motivated’ charges against 11 human rights activists to be dropped Those on trial include Taner Kılıç, Amnesty’s Turkey chair, and İdil...

Of 152 migrants on board the vessel, at least 30 Somalis and Ethiopians have reportedly drowned Yemen suffering ‘a spiralling humanitarian crisis that has left more than 22 million people reliant on...

Responding to news that an asylum-seeker being treated at a hospital in Papua New Guinea for a serious medical condition has been restrained for three days and is being force-fed by hospital staff...

Responding to the news that the Russian authorities have refused to grant bail to Oyub Titiev, head of human rights group Memorial’s office in the city of Grozny, following a hearing in the Supreme...

Mahmoud al-Werfalli, already wanted by the ICC, appears to shoot dead ten blindfolded figures in horrifying Benghazi video Responding to reports that Mahmoud al-Werfalli - former Field Commander of...

Amnesty International has called on the UK Government to reject the idea of a statute of limitations to block the investigation of alleged crimes committed by soldiers and other security forces...

In response to today’s attack on Save the Children’s offices in Jalalabad in Afghanistan, which has left several people dead and a number of others injured, Biraj Patnaik, Amnesty International’s...

THURSDAY 25 JANUARY 2018, 7.30PM Amnesty International will hold a vigil for the murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni this Thursday evening at 7.30pm to mark the two-year anniversary of...

Announcement may temporarily protect Rohingya refugees from being returned to face further abuses ‘Any arrangement on returns must first address the conditions of apartheid that the Rohingya have fled...

No warning was given before armed men and bulldozers razed the sites on the outskirts of Mogadishu last month 'What makes these demolitions particularly cruel is that t housands of people affected had...