‘If implemented properly, this long-overdue reform will spare hundreds from the gallows’ - Magdalena Mughrabi Responding to news that Iran will implement amended drugs laws and remove capital...

The attacks on Taha Siddiqui and other Pakistani journalists must be immediately and effectively investigated by the authorities, Amnesty International said today. Taha Siddiqui was driving to...

‘The shroud of secrecy and lack of transparency over what happened to these detainees is alarming’ - Magdalena Mughrabi The Iranian authorities must immediately investigate reports that at least five...

Responding to a spate of killings in Nigeria over the past week by herdsmen and ethnic militias which have left dozens dead across the states of Benue, Kaduna, Rivers and Taraba, Director of Amnesty...

‘The Syrian government is cynically using these seriously injured and ill people as bargaining chips’ - Kristyan Benedict Amnesty International is calling on the Syrian government to allow the urgent...

The Myanmar authorities must immediately release two Reuters journalists who have been arbitrarily detained for investigating military abuses in Rakhine State, Amnesty International said. The two...

‘The United States could be sending people to their deaths’ - Marselha Gonçalves Margerin Responding to today’s announcement by the USA’s Department of Homeland Security that “Temporary Protected...

TUESDAY 9 JANUARY 2018, 1-2PM English PEN, along with Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders, will stage a lunchtime vigil tomorrow (1-2pm) at the Saudi Arabia Embassy in London for the...

The retrial of Ahmed H, a Syrian man sentenced to 10 years in prison for throwing stones during clashes with guards at the at the Serbia-Hungary border, will continue today. Ahmed was arrested and...

Today’s trial of a Tibetan language activist, who could face up to 15 years in jail for “inciting separatism”, has exposed how ludicrously unjust the case against him is, Amnesty International has...