Malaysia should immediately halt the judicial caning of refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said, after the government disclosed that almost 30,000 foreigners had been caned in five years. In...

Amnesty International has called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to reverse the ban on peaceful protest in the Kingdom, amid fears of a violent crackdown on mass demonstrations planned for today's...

A group of anti-government protesters missing since they were arrested this week in Baghdad are feared to be at risk of torture, after other recently released protestors told Amnesty International...

A man believed to be the world’s longest serving death row inmate, who has spent the last 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution, removed from death row and his...

Amnesty International has urged the Kenyan authorities to ensure that government officials suspected of being implicated in post-election violence in 2008 comply with a summons from the International...

The father of a wrongly-imprisoned newspaper editor from Azerbaijan has issued an impassioned appeal to the Duke of York to intervene on behalf of his son, following reports that Prince Andrew is...

The situation in Gaza should be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC), Amnesty International said today (9 March), as it called on the Human Rights Council to pass a resolution that would...

Amnesty to raise concerns at Human Rights Council in Geneva today Amnesty International is calling on the Sri Lankan government to immediately release thousands of people currently being held in...

The Sudanese authorities must release over 50 protestors arrested during a peaceful anti-government demonstration in the capital Khartoum, Amnesty International said today. Police and Agents of the...

The Yemeni authorities must end deadly night raids and other attacks on protesters, Amnesty International said today, after one protester was killed and around 100 injured in the capital Sana’a late...