Amnesty International today (6 January) insisted that reform of control orders, hinted at yesterday by Prime Minister David Cameron, must acknowledge the fundamental human rights concerns with the...

Amnesty International has today called on Ivory Coast security forces to stop their attacks on political opponents as new information emerged about a deadly raid on political allies of Alassane...

Amnesty International is calling for the immediate release of three Russian opposition activists detained in Moscow after a peaceful and sanctioned rally calling for freedom of assembly and later...

Brother of murdered British woman to mount 24-hour “Twitter-a-thon” Ten years after the killing of 21 people – including British woman Charlotte Wilson – travelling on the Titanic Express bus in...

A life sentence handed down against Dr Binayak Sen by a court in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh yesterday violates international fair trial standards and is likely to enflame tensions in the...

Urgent life-saving appeal launched Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of a Kurdish law student scheduled for 26 December, and for the authorities to...

Amnesty International has expressed its disappointment with the outcome of yesterday’s United Nations special meeting on the situation in Ivory Coast. The UN Human Rights Council met yesterday in a...

Amnesty International is calling on the Bangladeshi government to immediately investigate allegations that a Member of Parliament for the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party has been tortured...

As the UN Human Rights Council (the Council) today [23 December] prepares to hold a Special Session on the situation of human rights in Ivory Coast, Amnesty International calls on the Council’s...

Amnesty has received a growing number of reports of people being arrested or abducted at home or on the streets, often by unidentified armed attackers accompanied by elements of the defence and...