The release of opposition politician Merera Gudina and hundreds of other detainees in Ethiopia today must only be a first step towards freedom for all prisoners of conscience in the country, Amnesty...

Responding to reports that the police shot dead at least eight protesters in Mrauk-U in Myanmar’s Rakhine State yesterday, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director for Southeast Asia and the...

‘Ministers are being issued with a blank cheque to rewrite laws and curtail rights on a whim without the proper scrutiny of parliament’ – Rachel Logan MPs must not issue ministers with a blank cheque...

Lawyer Mahienour el-Massry is one of numerous human rights defenders under attack from the Egyptian authorities ‘Rare moments of justice like this offer a glimmer of hope to the thousands of other...

Call on Huthi authorities to release other prisoners of conscience ‘Since 2016, Yemen has witnessed a surge in arbitrary arrests, detentions and enforced disappearances by Huthi forces’ - Samah Hadid...

Responding to an announcement by the Bangladesh Foreign Ministry today that it intends to repatriate all Rohingya refugees within two years, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for...

Ahed, who is due in court today, faces possible ten-year jail sentence ‘The footage of this incident shows that she posed no actual threat and that her punishment is blatantly disproportionate’ -...

Journalist Afgan Mukhtarli was sentenced to six years in prison today, following his arrest on trumped-up charges in Azerbaijan. Mukhtarli fled from Azerbaijan to Georgia in 2014 following fear of...

Eyewitnesses have told Amnesty that protester Khomsi el-Yerfeni, who died during Monday’s protest, was run over twice by a police car 'Unrest on Tunisia’s streets must not give the police a green...

41 detainees still at camp, including Toffiq al-Bihani, a Yemeni man held without charge or trial since early 2003 ‘This abominable detention facility must be shut down once and for all’ - Erika...