New enforcement drive includes thousands of police warning texts, confiscation of cars, job dismissals and people referred to courts In one case earlier this month, a woman was ordered to wash corpses...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has relentlessly suppressed rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly Crackdown on protest organisers, journalists, political opposition and human...

Reacting to news that Ghana’s Parliament voted to remove the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act as well as the 1962 Armed Forces Act, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s...

Two executions for drug offences expected this week First woman due to be executed in the country for 20 years Singapore is one of four countries that still executes people for drug offences ‘There is...

Amnesty has written to Policing Board to investigate PSNI use of secret surveillance powers against journalists 'The pattern of treating journalists as criminal suspects must end' - Patrick Corrigan...

President Saied has dissolved parliament, given himself new powers to dismiss judges, and introduced repressive new laws At least 39 people have been investigated on charges such as ‘insulting’ the...

Sunday’s elections set to take place after opposition Candlelight Party denied right to register in politically-motivated move New regulation prohibits any calls for a boycott of the vote ‘The...

‘Russia is holding some of the world’s lowest-income countries hostage to its military and political agenda’ - Anna Wright Responding to the Russian armed forces’ latest attack on Odesa’s port...

New briefing shows how thousands have been subject to detention, labelled ‘foreign agents’ or been jailed under new laws penalising discussion of the armed forces Amateur radio broadcaster Vladimir...

Concerns that Damascus will restrict aid flows after conditions placed on use of Bab al-Hawa crossing point following Russian veto Four million people in north-west of country are currently reliant on...