The deaths of hundreds of people in detention facilities run by Nigeria’s military Joint Task Force (JTF) must be investigated as a matter of urgency, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty has...

Amnesty International has described comments by Lord Dennis Rogan, praising the Sri Lankan government of President Rajapaksa after a visit to the country, as "fawning" over "a regime with blood on its...

Amnesty International expressed profound disappointment at a suspension of the police investigation into the notorious Claudy bombings as “just the latest betrayal the Claudy families have faced"...

Amnesty International is calling for a full, impartial and independent investigation into the deaths of at least 49 people after the Egyptian security forces used excessive and unwarranted lethal...

Following the announcement that The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International commented:...

The proposed introduction of compulsory ‘medical tests’ to bar migrant workers deemed homosexual or transgender from entering Kuwait and other Gulf countries, is outrageous and should be rejected out...

30-page briefing released to mark World Day Against the Death Penalty

Responding to the announcement today that the Northern Ireland Executive is to open a Northern Ireland Bureau in Beijing, Amnesty International has called on Ministers to use the office to raise...

Photo posted to Facebook could lead to five-year jail term for 15-year-old The authorities in Morocco must immediately and unconditionally drop charges against three teenagers arrested for kissing and...

New campaign comes a week after Herman Wallace’s death Following the death last week of the “Angola 3” prisoner Herman Wallace, Amnesty International has launched a campaign for the release of his...