President Ali Abdullah Saleh has already ratified the death sentence of Muhammed Taher Thabet Samoum who is at imminent risk of execution. Samoum has been sentenced to death for a murder he is alleged...
Amnesty International has condemned the violent dispersal of a mainly peaceful demonstration in the aftermath of Sunday’s presidential election in Belarus which was marred by irregularities. In what...
According to Iran’s Fars News Agency, the 11 men hanged at Zahedan Prison were connected with the People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (PRMI), or Jondallah, which claimed responsibility for the 15...
Amnesty International today called on the Iraqi government to do more to protect the country’s Christian minority from an expected spike in violent attacks as they prepare to celebrate Christmas. Last...
Eyewitnesses have told Amnesty International that protestors seriously injured during Thursday’s mass protests in Ivory Coast’s capital city of Abidjan were denied medical treatment amid threats from...
Amnesty International has called on the UK Government to lead a political process to secure agreement on a Northern Ireland Bill of Rights. The call comes as the government published the responses...
Amnesty International has welcomed the announcement by the Northern Ireland Executive that it will hold an inquiry into historical institutional child abuse in the region. Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty...
Eyewitnesses have told Amnesty International that at least nine unarmed protesters were killed today [16 December] in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, during mass protests over a political deadlock following...
The Kyrgyzstani authorities are failing to provide justice for the thousands of victims of human rights abuses during four days of violent ethnic clashes which tore through southern Kyrgyzstan in June...
Amnesty International today welcomed the new report on Migration and Trafficking produced by the Scottish Parliament’s Equal Opportunities Committee. The human rights group welcomed the comprehensive...