‘2019 needs to be the year the UK finally does the right thing and ends its shameful Saudi arms shipments’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International has renewed its longstanding call on the UK Government to...

Ahead of the two-year anniversary of the collapse of Northern Ireland’s devolved government (9 January), Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty’s Northern Ireland Programme Director, said: “For two years the...

Responding to reports that the Iranian prison authorities have prevented the jailed UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from having a regular telephone call with her husband Richard after an...

‘The Thai authorities are bound by the general prohibition not to transfer persons to any place where they would face a real risk of serious human rights abuses’ - Samah Hadid Responding to reports...

Internet cut off and radio and TV stations targeted, while election results may be delayed beyond 6 January ‘This attack on freedom of expression and media freedom risks exacerbating an already tense...

Netflix has defended decision to pull episode of Patriot Act show, saying it had to ‘comply with local law’ ‘Netflix is in danger of facilitating the Kingdom’s zero-tolerance policy on freedom of...

Responding to Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s comments on asylum-seekers arriving in the UK , Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: "The Home Secretary's comments...

Responding to today’s decision by the Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to uphold the conviction and 10-year prison term of Ahmed Mansoor, a prominent human rights defender, Lynn...

Responding to the news that Bahrain’s Court of Cassation has upheld the conviction of Nabeel Rajab, one of Bahrain’s most prominent human rights defenders, based on views he expressed on Twitter, Lynn...

Responding to the news that an Egyptian court has upheld a two-year prison sentence against Amal Fathy, a woman human rights defender convicted over a video she posted online criticising the Egyptian...