A prominent Muslim politician and government critic arrested today in Sri Lanka must be released immediately, or charged with an internationally recognisable criminal offence, Amnesty International...

Security force harassment and unlawful detention of journalists is undermining freedom of expression in South Sudan, Amnesty International, the Agency for Independent Media (AIM), Committee to Protect...

The Salvadoran authorities must urgently comply with a ruling from the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights this week by providing a seriously ill young woman with a life-saving termination...

The Belarusian authorities must stop the execution of a homeless man who was sentenced to death for murder earlier this week, Amnesty International said today. T he man, originally from Ukraine who...

Italy’s Supreme Court yesterday declared an anti-Roma policy - the so-called “Nomad emergency” - unlawful and unfounded, a move Amnesty International has hailed as a key victory in the struggle to end...

State governor urged to commute death sentences of five men still on death row The US state of Maryland has confirmed a US and global trend towards ending the death penalty, Amnesty International said...

Second Indian national to die in a Pakistani jail this year The Pakistani authorities must protect Indian prisoners from violence in the country's jails, Amnesty International said today after an...

A million-strong petition may have failed to save him from execution, but Troy Davis – and the campaign to save his life – is now recalled in a new photo exhibition to be staged at the Waterfront Hall...

Amnesty says the upcoming CHOGM meeting should not be allowed to take place in Sri Lanka in November unless systematic violations of human rights are stopped. The Sri Lankan government is intensifying...

The killing of a young Afghan woman by her father in front of a large crowd last week - on the grounds that she had “dishonoured” the family - is further proof that the authorities are failing to...