Responding to the Philippines Congress’ approval of President Rodrigo Duterte's request to extend martial law in the Mindanao region until the end of 2018 in order to “eradicate” Islamist militants...

Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s websites targeted in effort to ‘expunge’ all trace of the Kremlin critic from Russian politics and society ‘The Russian authorities are clearly targeting Open Russia in a bid to...

Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali’s death sentence came after psychological torture, false confessions and a grossly unfair trial ‘The Iranian authorities must immediately quash Ahmadreza Djalali’s...

Report, showing network of exploitation involving EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard, comes after international outrage at reports of captive people being sold in the country UK among countries helping to...

Responding to the Cambodian Supreme Court’s decision which upheld the guilty verdict against Tep Vanny and fellow activists Bo Chhorvy and Kong Chantha, on charges relating to a peaceful protest they...

Journalist Jeremy Paxman pokes fun at his tough-speaking persona in a new video about people’s forgotten ability to use a pen and paper in the digital era.

Human rights groups in Ireland are being unfairly targeted under a draconian law that can be used to criminalise campaigning organisations, Amnesty International Ireland said today. Amnesty Ireland...

Amnesty International and Liberty are staging a ‘Henry VIII eats Parliament’ stunt in Westminster on Monday (11 December, 1pm) to highlight human rights campaigners’ concerns with how the Government...

Responding to news that same-sex marriage will become legal in Australia after a historic bill was passed in the House of Representatives, Lizzi Price, from Amnesty International Australia, said:...

‘No country in the world recognises Israel’s annexation of East Jerusalem, making the decision to confer US recognition deeply troubling’ - Raed Jarra r Condemning today’s announcement by the...