The Hong Kong authorities’ relentless pursuit of jail terms for three leaders of the pro-democracy Umbrella Movement is a vindictive attack on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty...

More than 64% of refugees in Uganda are children under the age of 18 Failure of other countries to act “could result in an even worse humanitarian crisis” The international community must deliver and...

After Philippine police killed 32 people in what is believed to be the highest death toll in a single day in President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called ‘war on drugs’, Amnesty International’s Director for...

No prosecutions for the killing of 34 striking mineworkers and injury of at least 70 others in 2012 “ There is nothing happening to the people who shot us. This is the work of the government” –...

‘Mahmoud al-Werfelli led an army unit that is accused of atrocities, including the extrajudicial executions of unarmed and defenseless captives’ - Heba Morayef ICC urged to expand its investigations...

Responding to attempts by Kenya’s NGO regulator to shut down two human rights organisations - the African Centre for Open Governance and the Kenya National Human Rights Commission - Michelle Kagari...

Reacting to the guilty verdict against pro-democracy activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa (known as ‘Pai Dao Din’), who was today sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for violating Thailand’s lèse...

Amnesty International and 63 other organisations are demanding the release of the Cambodian human rights activist Tep Vanny today on the one-year anniversary of her arrest on trumped-up charges. In a...

‘It’s time for Trump to completely change course’ - Njambi Good In response to President Trump’s comments today on the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white supremacists following violence at a white...

‘Our story is the stuff of nightmares’ - Richard Ratcliffe Amnesty International has selected a new play about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as a possible recipient of its International Freedom of...