‘Hundreds of thousands of people exist with virtually no rights, treated essentially as slaves, in some of the worst circumstances we’ve documented in the last fifty years.’ Spokespeople, images, B...

Amnesty International has received first-hand reports of torture and other ill-treatment from detainees held in Syria as a wave of arrests of anti-government protesters intensified over the weekend...

Following US President Barack Obama’s announcement today that Osama Bin Laden has been killed during a US-led operation in Pakistan, Amnesty International Senior Director for Research Claudio Cordone...

The Turkish government is failing to protect the rights of working people, Amnesty International said today ahead of May Day as it launched a global campaign for workers’ rights in Turkey. Amnesty...

The Egyptian authorities must abolish a recent law criminalising peaceful protests and strikes, Amnesty International said ahead of tomorrow’s planned protests for International Workers’ Day in Cairo...

Authorities in Bahrain must not allow the execution of four protesters sentenced to death by a military court over the killing of two police officers in anti-government demonstrations last month...

Amnesty International has condemned a recent sharp rise in the rate of public executions in Iran - which have included the first executions of juvenile offenders in the world this year. Since the...

Amnesty International today renewed its call on US authorities to release or give fair trials to remaining Guantánamo Bay detainees, after leaked files revealed fresh details about those held at the...

Almost two years after the end of the conflict, this UN report finally exposes the Sri Lankan government’s whitewash in its efforts to deny justice to the war’s victims A United Nations report on war...

The UN Security Council must refer the situation in Syria to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Amnesty International said today, amid escalating government violence against...