‘The Bahraini authorities are not on the path of reform but seem rather driven by vindictiveness’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Today’s decision by Bahrain’s appeal court to uphold sentences against 13...

Punks, rockers and folkies from across Northern Ireland are coming together to support imprisoned Russian punk protestors Pussy Riot. An eclectic bunch of musicians and singers will be taking to the...

Those executed included three Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights; total executed this year at almost 100 Amnesty International has called on the authorities in Iraq to halt all...

Amnesty International has condemned the brutal killings of two Children's rights in separate incidents in Afghanistan as “despicable” and called for them to be thoroughly investigated. Yesterday a...

A Yemeni student who has allegedly suffered torture and detention in a cockroach-infested cell is at imminent risk of re-arrest and further mistreatment, Amnesty International is warning. Aden...

Amnesty International has condemned an Israeli court’s verdict that the government of Israel bears no responsibility in the death of Rachel Corrie, saying the verdict continues a pattern of impunity...

Amnesty International has received credible reports that nine people were executed on Thursday 23 August in The Gambia, and that more persons are under threat of imminent executions in the coming days...

Amnesty International today accused the UK-registered mining company Vedanta of attempting to “gloss over” criticisms of its poor human rights record in the East Indian state of Orissa by publishing a...

If I could know where my son Albion is, and if I could bury him and put a flower on his grave I would be in a better place Nesrete Kumnova , from Kosovo whose son’s body is believed to be among those...

Amnesty International has condemned the brutal killing of some 17 people who took part in a music party in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province on Sunday night (26 August). According to reports...