Inconsistencies in EU protection of activists who are facing mounting deadly threats and attacks ‘The EU is clearly in a double bind when business or other vital interests are concerned’ – Human...

The authorities’ attempt to introduce the controversial Extradition Bill in Hong Kong was part of a steady erosion of human rights in the region, Amnesty International said today, in a new report...

Meeting to discuss how to share responsibility for refugees and migrants who make the perilous sea crossing to Europe Strained and squalid detention centres in Malta holding hundreds of men, women and...

The Court of Appeal in Belfast today ruled that an investigation into criminal acts committed during the interrogation of the ‘Hooded Men’ in Northern Ireland in 1971 should proceed. Grainne Teggart...

More than 50 civilians killed in separate attacks - one a Taliban suicide bombing on a hospital ‘Once again it is civilians who bear the brunt of the violence’ - Daphne Eviatar Responding to the...

A new Amnesty International investigation has documented an alarming pattern of the Hong Kong Police Force deploying reckless and indiscriminate tactics while arresting people at protests, as well as...

Aleksandr Gabyshev had been on 8,000km trek to Moscow to ‘purge’ country of President Putin Gabyshev taken away by masked law-enforcement officials earlier today ‘What sounds like a tale from Russian...

Three companies alone left hundreds of employees penniless - true scale likely to be in the thousands ‘Tears come to my eyes when I remember where we used to go to find food … in the bins’ - Kenyan...

Amnesty International has called for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to publicly condemn the Chinese authorities’ abusive policies in Xinjiang and call for an immediate closure of camps...

Responding to India’s detention of Farooq Abdullah, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, under the region’s repressive Public Safety Act, Aakar Patel, Head of Amnesty International India...