A year on from the capture and killing of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, Amnesty International is calling on the Libyan authorities to hand over immediately the former ruler’s military intelligence...

"Criticism, insult or mockery does not interfere with the individual believer’s freedom of religion, however offensive they may find it” - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui A man facing trial for publishing the...

Amnesty International is delighted to announce the release of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012 available on DVD and Blu-Ray from 3 December. Described in the Independent as “a comedy night with a...

Amnesty International UK and the National Union of Students today revealed an amazing new top prize for their annual Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year award – a fellowship with the US-based...

Warning coincides with veiled threat to UK over parliamentary investigation The Saudi Arabian authorities must withdraw their threat to deal “firmly” with people taking part in demonstrations and...

New report heavily critical of secret justice plans ahead of debate on controversial bill ‘It’s a secret justice system straight from the pages of a Kafka novel’ - Alice Wyss The government’s plans...

Amnesty International today called on the Serbian government to introduce new legislation to stop the horrors of the forced eviction of the Roma community of Belvil being replicated across the nation...

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. The...

*Shop worker Saeed Sedeghi among men whose fate is now unknown *Iran believed to have executed at least 344 people since start of year The fate and whereabouts of 11 men in Iran who were due to be put...

The decision by Argentina’s Supreme Court to allow a rape survivor to have her pregnancy terminated is a step forward for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights in the...