Amnesty International has welcomed this evening’s emphatic rejection by the House of Lords of UK government plans to extend periods of pre-charge detention without charge to 42 days. The organisation...

With Asia executing more people each year than any other part of the world, Amnesty International called today (10 October), on World Day Against the Death Penalty, for India, South Korea and Taiwan...

Amnesty International calls on MPs to remove Colonel Karuna from parliament Amnesty International today called on Sri Lankan MPs to immediately remove from Parliament the alleged war criminal...

Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing in 2004 in Gaza of British national Tom Hurndall (“The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall”, Channel Four Television, Monday 13 October)...

Recent attacks on independent journalists and human rights activists illustrate the risks under which they work in Russia, Amnesty International said on the eve of the second anniversary of Anna...

New report documents violence against US beef import protestors Amnesty International today found the South Korean police guilty of using excessive force earlier this year against demonstrators...

Forty years after one of the worst incidents of mass killing in Mexico’s history, the Mexican government still hasn’t given answers to questions surrounding the massacre that took place in Mexico City...

Amnesty calls for authorities to match words with actions in eastern state of Orissa India should match its words with its actions and ensure that members of the Christian minority community in the...

Amnesty International today condemned the Burmese authorities decision to re-arrest U Win Htein just days after his release. The 66-year-old is a senior assistant to Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of...

As European Union monitors take up their posts in Georgia, ongoing security concerns, unexploded ordnance from the Georgia-Russia conflict in August and the large scale destruction of property in...