Burundi becomes the first country to withdraw from the International Criminal Court in a clear attempt to stop the Court’s investigations in the country Withdrawal “does not in any way absolve Burundi...

Amnesty International is urging the Supreme Court to change Northern Ireland’s abortion law as a three-day hearing in London concludes today. Amnesty is an intervenor in the case which is considering...

Case follows separate one of ten human rights activists which began in Istanbul yesterday Taner Kılıç has already been behind bars since early June ‘The Turkish authorities have repeatedly and...

“Any argument in favour of secrecy has just crumbled” - Grainne Teggart Amnesty International has called on civil servants in Northern Ireland to release a year-old report on Northern Ireland’s...

As the presidential election re-run takes place in Kenya today (26 October), Amnesty International is urging the police – who have been heavily deployed in opposition strongholds – to exercise...

Director of Amnesty Turkey, İdil Eser, and nine other activists were arrested in July Campaigners to press for release of Amnesty Turkey's Chair, Taner Kılıç, whose separate trial begins tomorrow...

Amnesty will monitor trials of human rights activists in Istanbul and Izmir Protesters in London will mount vigil at Turkish Embassy on morning of trial ‘It should not take the judge more than half an...

Up to 12 prisoners packed into windowless, four-person train compartments - some from Soviet period - and only allowed to use the toilet once every five or six hours Prisoners are ‘disappeared’ while...

‘This routine abuse of the veto has become the equivalent of a green light for war crimes’ - Sherine Tadros Responding to news that Russia has used its veto power at the United Nations Security...

Responding to reports that the Chinese authorities have released Gui Minhai, a Hong Kong bookseller with Swedish nationality who went missing in Thailand in 2015 and later appeared in Chinese custody...