‘Fears that Sattar Beheshti died as a result of torture … are very plausible’ - Ann Harrison The Iranian authorities must investigate the circumstances that led to the death of a blogger in detention...

‘President Obama has been given a second chance to keep his promises on human rights. Don’t blow it’ - Suzanne Nossel Responding to the re-election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of...

The Bahraini authorities today stripped 31 opposition figures of their Bahraini nationality in a move described by Amnesty International as “frightening and chilling”. A Ministry of Interior statement...

Campaigners in Northern Ireland have welcomed a major United Nations vote today to agree an an international Arms treaty. In the biggest show of support for the treaty so far, 157 governments at the...

A historic treaty to regulate the global Arms has won the backing of an overwhelming majority of states today, in a move seen by Amnesty International as a potential victory for human rights worldwide...

Responding to reported comments from the prime minister David Cameron on a possible “exit plan” deal for the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Amnesty International UK Syria campaign manager Kristyan...

The Chinese authorities must immediately release prominent Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights activist, Mao Hengfeng, who has been sentenced to one and a half years in...

More than 380 executed in Iran so far this year Amnesty International has said that it fears for the lives of five men on death row in Iran after they were transferred from Ghezel Hesar Prison in...

Dozens of men and boys from Maiduguri in northern Nigeria have been reportedly shot by security forces as Amnesty International published a report condemning human rights violations by the security...

Responding to news of the Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to promote UK arms sales, Amnesty International UK’s Head of Policy and...