All peaceful activists and other prisoners of conscience detained in Syria must be set free, Amnesty International said today after a mass amnesty was granted ahead of the Eid al-Adha religious...

Amnesty International has declared the attempt to remove a Syrian national to Damascus from the UK, deeply alarming. In a letter to the Home Secretary Theresa May, Amnesty called on the UK government...

‘All these teachers did was to call for a strike in their role as trade union leaders’ - Philip Luther Amnesty International has denounced a decision to uphold prison sentences against two former...

Claims that a Russian opposition MP’s assistant was abducted in Ukraine and forced to return to Russia where he has alleged he was tortured or otherwise ill-treated must be investigated, Amnesty...

Progress on human rights in Tunisia following the ousting of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali is being rolled back by the current Tunisian government, Amnesty International warned today, as the country marks...

Seven men are at imminent risk of execution in the Gambia, following Friday’s unanimous decision by the Supreme Court upholding their previous conviction for treason. Amnesty International has urged...

Amnesty International UK launched a new action today calling on Pakistan’s Prime Minister to protect people who speak out for human rights in Pakistan like Malala Yousufzai. Gunmen opened fire on 14...

Appeals not as yet exhausted Execution warrant signed after Edo State Governor declared inmates are “becoming unmanageable” Last known execution in Nigeria in 2006 Two prisoners on death row in Benin...

Urgent steps are needed if Afghanistan is to avoid a repeat of the deaths among Children's rights and adults in the country’s displacement camps that occurred during last year’s bitterly cold winter...

Speaking in response to the reports that a police officer fired a Taser at a blind man after the officer mistook the man’s walking stick for a samurai sword, Amnesty International UK Arms Programme...