The head of Egypt’s military intelligence has promised Amnesty International that the army will no longer carry out forced “virginity tests” after defending their use during a meeting with the...

Associates of Ai Weiwei who had been subjected to enforced disappearance along with the Chinese artist since April have been released, according to media reports today. Wen Tao, Hu Mingfen and Liu...

Amnesty International is calling for the release of a man in Kuwait who has been detained for tweeting in support of protestors in Bahrain and elsewhere in the Middle East. Nasser Abul, 26, was...

New mass rapes by members of the Congolese army in the Democratic Republic of Congo are the result of the government’s failure to bring human rights abusers to justice, Amnesty International said...

David Cameron must keep up the pressure on Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, over China’s appalling human rights record when they meet on Monday, Amnesty International said today. The release of Ai Weiwei...

Amnesty has welcomed Tunisia’s joining of the International Criminal Court (ICC). At a ceremony at the UN in New York, Tunisia has become the 116th state party to the Rome Statute, which set up the...

Romania’s poorest and most disadvantaged citizens cannot access adequate housing because of the country’s legal system, Amnesty International said in a briefing published today. Mind the legal gap...

A new “general amnesty” announced in Syria falls far short of the political reforms called for by protesters, Amnesty International said today. According to the state news agency SANA, the amnesty...

The authorities in Ivory Coast are holding at least 50 people without charge, including several high-profile Ivorian politicians, following the arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo two months ago...

A military court in Manama today sentenced a group of 21 prominent Shia activists who have advocated political reform. The Bahrain News Agency reported that the opposition activists had been charged...