Médecins Sans Frontiers have today reported that Italy has ordered the seizure of the search and rescue ship, Aquarius, for alleged illegal waste treatment. Responding to the reports, Steve Valdez...

Trial of nine pro-democracy leaders to start tomorrow “This prosecution is an act of retaliation aimed at silencing the pro-democracy movement” – Man-kei Tam The Hong Kong government must drop the...

The government's Prevent strategy - which forms one strand of the government's overarching counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST - seeks to pre-empt acts of terrorism by identifying those at risk of...

Security Council set to discuss the crisis at 8pm this evening ‘Hodeidah remains on a knife-edge’ - Sherine Tadros The UK is ‘just part of the problem’ unless it halts arms sales to Saudi Arabia...

Turkish authorities have today detained 13 activists in connection with the investigation into jailed human rights defender Osman Kavala. Responding to the detentions, Andrew Gardner, Amnesty...

At least 79 refugees and migrants in Misratah port at risk of torture if forced to disembark in Libya ‘Nivin’ cargo ship appears to have breached international law in taking dozens of migrants back to...

Responding the Information Commissioner’s Office investigation that found the Metropolitan Police Service’s Gangs Matrix breached data protection laws, Tanya O’Carroll, Amnesty International’s...

Responding to the guilty verdict handed to Khmer Rouge cadres Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) today, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International...

An Indonesian high school teacher who has been jailed for recording abusive phone calls from her principal must be released, Amnesty International said today. After the Supreme Court yesterday decided...

Vahid Mazloumin and Mohammad Esmail Ghasemi condemned to death after grossly unfair televised show trial Responding to news that the Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of financial...