Anna Lo MLA lays wreath on steps of Stormont The twentieth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre will be marked in Belfast today when Hong Kong-born MLA Anna Lo lays a wreath on the steps of...

The Chinese authorities have stepped up curbs on dissenting voices and escalated censorship of activists throughout the country, said Amnesty International today, a day before the 20th anniversary of...

The winners of the 18th Amnesty International UK Media Awards were announced this evening. The awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant...

The Chinese authorities should hold an open and independent inquiry into the 1989 violent military crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square, Amnesty International said today...

Amnesty International this evening gave its coveted “Special Award For Journalism Under Threat” to Eynulla Fətullayev, an Azerbaijani newspaper editor jailed after criticising the government. The...

The Gambian journalist Ebrima B. Manneh, who has not been seen since his arrest in July 2006, received special recognition at the Amnesty International Media Awards ceremony in London tonight [2 June]...

Amnesty International UK has reacted to reports that two Britons - Sally Antia and Mark Hawkins - have today been sentenced to a two-month jail term in Dubai for an offence relating to “adultery”...

Amnesty International has announced that the winner of the 2009 Scottish Prize in their annual Media Awards is Lucy Adams, writing in The Herald Magazine for her piece "The Fight for Justice"...

“It’s exactly the right time to start tweeting Amnesty news for journalists who want real-time human rights updates” - Mike Blakemore, Amnesty media director Winners of Amnesty’s annual media awards...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “As well as delivering his speech to the Muslim world and trying to kick-start the stalled Middle East peace process, President Obama should use this...