Aditi Gaddam’s poem named You Can’t Jail Minds the Midlands regional winner St Clare’s School pupil Aditi Gaddam, 16, has been named as the Key Stage 4 regional winner for the Midlands in Amnesty...

Amnesty appeals to authorities to provide protection to prospective witnesses Amnesty International UK today expressed disappointment that despite six months of investigation, the United Kingdom...

Junta must ensure help goes to all victims irrespective of race, colour or creed Following the impact of Cyclone Nargis on Burma, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around a...

Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal for a university professor in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 150 lashes and eight months’ imprisonment for meeting a woman in a coffee shop...

Amnesty International today released a report revealing the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia. The report contains first-hand testimony from scores of traumatised...

Releases come shortly after new anti-‘waterboarding’ film denounces torture Following the release of nine detainees from the US-run military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International has...

Report calls for halt to all executions amid ‘lethal lottery’ Publishing the first ever large-scale study into India’s use of the death penalty, Amnesty International has revealed a system riddled...

Peaceful protestors held despite being over 1,000 miles away from relay route In yet another bitter twist in Vietnam’s pattern of repressing legitimate and peaceful dissent, the country’s authorities...

With 100 days to go until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today launched the first in a series of four hard-hitting animated films highlighting human rights abuses linked to the Chinese...

Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity according to an Amnesty International report published today. Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme Director...