A court order directing the closing of a sedition case filed against Amnesty India brings to an end a disgraceful attempt to stifle freedom of expression, the organisation said today. On Tuesday, a...

Responding to news that a court in Myanmar has rejected the appeal by jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Response, said: “The...

“It is not a crime to call for a better standard of living” - Sarah Jackson Amnesty International can confirm that Sudanese security forces stormed a hospital in the city of Omdurman last night...

Responding to the airing on Iranian state television of video footage showing the UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe being arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in 2016, Kate Allen...

‘Khadija is one of many journalists and activists who have been targeted as part of the Azerbaijani government’s ruthless crackdown on dissent’ - Levan Asatiani The European Court of Human Rights...

40 detainees still held at notorious military prison opened 17 years ago The military prison at Guantánamo Bay remains a stain on the human rights record of the United States and a location for...

Amnesty International UK, Stonewall, the Trades Union Congress and the NUS call for marriage equality in Northern Ireland as the region marks two years without a sitting Assembly Amnesty International...

Responding to news that Malta will allow two ships that have been stranded at sea for almost three weeks with 49 people on board to dock, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Southern...

Hakeem al-Araibi, the former international footballer, risks torture and death if he is returned to Bahrain from Thailand, Amnesty International warned today. Al-Araibi and his wife have now been held...

Responding to news that the UN have granted refugee status to Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, an 18-year old Saudi woman, and put her forward for resettlement to Australia, Samah Hadid, Amnesty International...