Reports of security forces using firearms and teargas as crackdown on protesters escalates ‘Years of political and economic mismanagement has brought Zimbabwe’s economy to its knees’ - Muleya...

‘We have seen before that in highly-politicised cases the trial is often a mere spectacle with the outcome already decided’ - William Nee Responding to a death sentence given by a Chinese court to...

‘We are horrified by reports that at least two people have died from torture-inflicted injuries’ - Marie Struthers Amnesty International has received credible information that the authorities in the...

Cathy Newman announced as ceremony host Closing date for entries: Friday 25 January 2019 Enter here: https://amnesty-media-awards.org.uk/ Journalists,…

Jailed UK charity worker set to begin three-day hunger strike with human rights defender Narges Mohammadi in protest at denial of medical care ‘It’s outrageous it’s had to come to this for Nazanin and...

US-led Coalition still refusing to accept responsibility for killing hundreds of civilians in Raqqa Reacting to today’s statement by the US-led Coalition that it has begun “the process of deliberate...

A court order directing the closing of a sedition case filed against Amnesty India brings to an end a disgraceful attempt to stifle freedom of expression, the organisation said today. On Tuesday, a...

Responding to news that a court in Myanmar has rejected the appeal by jailed Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Response, said: “The...

“It is not a crime to call for a better standard of living” - Sarah Jackson Amnesty International can confirm that Sudanese security forces stormed a hospital in the city of Omdurman last night...

Responding to the airing on Iranian state television of video footage showing the UK charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe being arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport in 2016, Kate Allen...