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Manus Island: 'Cruel' court ruling risks refugee tragedy

Critical services - including food, water and medical treatment - must be restored to the more than 600 refugees and vulnerable men inside Lombrum detention centre on Manus Island before a major...

Landmark UK surveillance case to be heard in Strasbourg tomorrow

The European Court of Human Rights will hear a landmark case on surveillance tomorrow (7 November) as part of a challenge to the lawfulness of the UK’s surveillance laws and its intelligence agencies’...

Northern Ireland in midst of ‘hate crime epidemic’ warning

‘We’re calling for a much more robust response from the authorities’ - Patrick Corrigan Northern Ireland appears to be “in the midst of a hate crime epidemic” after a series of racist hate crimes were...

Spain: pre-trial detention of two men in Catalan 'sedition' case is disproportionate

Jordi Sánchez and Jordi Cruixat have already been in detention for nearly three weeks Call for sedition charge to be dropped Amnesty International is concerned at today’s decision by a Spanish judge...

Zimbabwe: arrest for Mugabe tweet marks 'sinister new chapter'

Amnesty International has reacted to today’s news that Zimbabwean police have charged a US woman Martha O’Donovan on suspicion of insulting President Robert Mugabe by calling him a “selfish and sick...

Afghanistan: ICC war crimes request offers 'last chance for justice'

‘This is a seminal moment for the ICC’ - Solomon Sacco Amnesty International has welcomed the news that the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, has said today she would...

Millions of letters to deliver hope to people denied human rights - new campaign

Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter-writing campaign launches People held in UK immigration detention centres and 10 human rights activists detained in Turkey amongst those receiving...

Northern Ireland: Westminster must now legislate for marriage equality - campaigners

Westminster must now legislate for marriage equality in Northern Ireland following the collapse of the inter-party talks to restore devolved government in the province, say Love Equality campaigners...

USA: suspect in New York truck attack must not be sent to Guantánamo

Sayfullo Saipov is criminal suspect and ‘should be treated as such by the US justice system’ Responding to US President Donald Trump saying he would consider sending the man accused of yesterday’s...

Israel denies entry to Amnesty staff member

Move apparently ‘retaliation’ for Amnesty’s settlement goods campaign ‘It flies in the face of the government’s repeated claims that Israel is a tolerant state’ - Philip Luther Israel’s decision to...