‘It is horrifying to find that there has been no progress to stop the use of torture’ - Donatella Rovera Several detainees have died after being subjected to torture in Libya in recent weeks and...

Amnesty International has welcomed the report today by the Home Affairs select Committee into the “Rules governing enforced removals from the UK”. The report is yet another damning indictment of using...

*Security forces’ tear gas use - including firing into peoples’ homes - questioned *Children's rights and the elderly amongst fatalities Bahrain must investigate more than a dozen deaths that followed...

The reputation of the London 2012 Olympic Games suffered a serious blow today after the resignation of ethics commissioner Meredith Alexander over her concerns about the sponsorship deal with Dow, a...

Responding to Prime Minister David Cameron’s address to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg today, Tara Lyle, Policy Adviser at Amnesty International UK, said: “David...

Two prize-winning authors have joined the judging panel for the Amnesty International Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year competition 2012. Anna Perera and Kathryn Cave will sit alongside...

Strong support for ending state of emergency laws, but abolition of death penalty opposed Most of the biggest Egyptian political parties have committed to delivering ambitious human right reform in...

The release of an Egyptian blogger and prisoner of conscience whose trial was flagrantly unfair comes months too late, Amnesty International said today. Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s...

A bill passed by the French Senate yesterday would violate freedom of expression by making it a criminal offence to publicly question events termed “genocide” under French law, Amnesty International...

Responding to today’s ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) that four senior Kenyan figures will stand trial over the 2007 post-election violence, Amnesty International Kenya’s Director...