‘The US capital justice system is fundamentally broken’ - Kristina Roth Amnesty International is urging the authorities in the US state of Nebraska to cancel plans to carry out its first execution in...

FILM SCREENING AND Q&A: LONDON, 7pm, MONDAY 13 AUGUST 2018 Documentary tells the stories of human rights defenders fighting against former-President Jammeh’s oppressive state Many families still...

A horrifying video obtained by Amnesty International shows Cameroonian security forces shooting at least a dozen unarmed people during a military operation in the Far North region of the country, the...

Responding to the news that Hasnat Karim, a British man held for two years in connection with a terror attack in Bangladesh, has been released without charge, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK...

“The Argentine lawmakers chose today to turn their backs on hundreds of thousands of people who can get pregnant” - Mariela Belski In the early hours of this morning, the Argentine Senate voted to...

Amal Fathy faces court hearing on Saturday for her Facebook post She ‘should be applauded for her courage, not put on trial’ - Najia Bounaim Today’s referral to trial of Amal Fathy, an Egyptian human...

EU countries responsible for rising death tolls, people stranded at sea for days, and conspiring to keep refugees in Libya, where they are exposed to torture and other abuse “European governments are...

Hassan Mshaima - whose son Ali recently began a hunger strike outside Knightsbridge embassy last week - is being denied diabetes pills and other medication as punishment for his jail protests ‘These...

‘We are deeply worried about his treatment in custody and the condition in which he attended court’ - Omar Waraich Shahidul Alam, a Bangladeshi photographer and outspoken social activist, could face...

‘The US-led Coalition’s admission of responsibility is … a welcome U-turn’ - Donatella Rovera Call on Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson to ‘set the record straight’ after he sought to discredit...