Four people due to be hanged for drug-related offences have received a reprieve until at least October ‘No-one should have to fear that they will be hanged’ - Biraj Patnaik Responding to the Supreme...

Amnesty International will host a high-profile event in London next week (Tuesday 9 July) on the murder of the Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The event - “Jamal Khashoggi's Assassination...

‘Witch hunt’ tactics used by Polish authorities to intimidate and smear judges Judges subjected to years of intimidation and online harassment Judges working to protect the independence of the Polish...

Videos and photos from the scene show damage consistent with F-16-launched bomb Up to 300 frightened migrants now on streets of Tajoura ‘This attack should be a wake-up call for EU states to end their...

Amendment to Government legislation expected next week from Conor McGinn MP; has support of Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and Green MPs Marriage equality would become law in Northern Ireland in 3...

Secretary of State for Defence and Minister for Women and Equalities, Penny Mordaunt, has said that if a court ruling found Northern Ireland’s abortion laws incompatible with human rights the...

Six years since Morsi ousted, new report to UN outlines scale of Sisi’s crackdown Thousands arrested, raft of new laws stifling free expression and NGOs, and more than 1,891 death sentences handed...

Following a decision by a preliminary investigations judge in Italy to release the Sea-Watch 3 captain, Carola Rackete, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s researcher on southern Europe said:...

In response to today’s decision by US federal prosecutors to retry the human rights defender Dr Scott Warren after a previous attempt to prosecute him ended in a mistrial, Erika Guevara-Rosas...

Humanitarian workers subjected to surveillance, interrogation, arrest and prosecution ‘The Trump administration’s targeting of human rights defenders … sets it on a slippery slope toward...