In response to the arrest of Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani for reporting that Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe and officials from the ruling ZANU-PF party donated used clothes, including night...

Aleksei Navalny and fellow campaigner Leonid Volkov sentenced to 20 days’ detention ‘It is a blatant attempt by the Russian authorities to suppress and suffocate any dissenting voices’ - Denis...

Amnesty International observers confirm the dangerous and inappropriate use of riot control equipment, including beating of defenceless people offering no resistance, and calls for a swift, thorough...

‘Since July, the Saudi Arabian government has been on an execution spree with an average of five people put to death per week’ - Lynn Maalouf The Saudi Arabian authorities have today carried out their...

33 now in custody, with arrests in Cairo, Giza and Damietta Crackdown comes after rainbow flag raised at music concert ‘The Egyptian authorities’ announcement that they are investigating the rainbow...

Letter to Nicholas Hopton comes ahead of major Europe-Iran business meeting in Zurich Mr Hopton urged to call for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Kamal Foroughi’s release Amnesty International and...

‘The US government must … address gun violence as the human rights crisis that it is’ - Margaret Huang Following the mass shooting in Las Vegas, Margaret Huang, Amnesty International USA’s Executive...

Following reports that several people had been shot dead by security forces in massive protests - some of which turned violent - in the Cameroon’s Anglophone regions, Ilaria Allegrozzi, Amnesty...

Responding to the news of the tragic death of a refugee on Manus Island, Kate Schuetze, Pacific Researcher at Amnesty International said: “This tragic and avoidable death is the sixth death related to...

Responding to clashes between police and protesters around today's Catalan referendum, John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International Europe and Central Asia Director said: "Spanish police have clearly been...