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Egypt: two-year prison sentence for poet and four other activists

‘Ahmed Said and the other activists should never have been on trial in the first place’ - Said Boumedouha

Northern Ireland: Amnesty response to Justice Minister’s appeal of High Court ruling on abortion

Amnesty International has reiterated its commitment to resist any attempt to overturn the decision of the Belfast High Court that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach the human rights of w

Egypt: two-year detention without trial of 'anti-torture' t-shirt teenager condemned

Mahmoud Hussein, arrested aged 18, one of more than 700 people held for two years without charge

Iran: dozens of juvenile offenders on death row - new report

Girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death in Iran

Northern Ireland: Amnesty will resist attempt to overturn High Court ruling on abortion

Amnesty International has pledged to resist any attempt to overturn the decision of the Belfast High Court that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach the human rights of women and girls in

India: authorities slammed for failure to investigate police rape allegations made by 13 Adivasi women

‘The authorities must thoroughly investigate both the allegations of abuse and the delay’ - Gopika Bashi

FIFA: Presidential candidates should pledge to end human rights abuses linked to World Cup

The candidates seeking the FIFA presidency should sign up to a set of pledges to prevent human rights abuses and corruption linked to the World Cup and other FIFA events, said a group of leading NG

Dozens drown in shipwrecks off Greece

Amnesty International UK’s Refugees Programme Director Steve Symonds said:

Burma: Activist jailed for 'harmless' Facebook post on same day as prisoner amnesty

102 people released in prisoner amnesty British man Philip Blackwood among prisoners released today

Turkey: Onslaught on Kurdish areas putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk

The Turkish government’s onslaught on Kurdish towns and neighbourhoods, which includes round-the-clock curfews and cuts