"Lee Ming-cheh is the victim of a politically motivated prosecution” – Roseann Rife Responding to the five-year jail sentence handed to Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-cheh by a Chinese court today (28...

Massive cache of internal documents and other evidence points to Shell’s complicity in horrific crimes committed by the Nigerian military in the 1990s New Amnesty report calls for a criminal...

Lesbian, gay, bi and trans people fleeing gang and military violence in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras ‘I don’t want to be illegal. I just want to live and be safe’ - trans woman Cristel...

Yesterday, the High Court declined to rule on the lawfulness of a near £1,000 fee that is preventing thousands of children registering their legal right to British citizenship. The court acknowledged...

Move comes week after a major Amnesty report on cobalt and child labour in the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘It is unacceptable that we have to name and shame companies before they act’ - Seema Joshi...

In response to news that the governments of Myanmar and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to return close to one million Rohingya refugees currently in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s Director...

Responding to news that the Papua New Guinea (PNG) authorities have sent immigration officials armed with sticks and knives into the Lombrum refugee detention centre on Manus Island this morning, Kate...

Amnesty International has denounced the UK Government’s policy on British-born children be required to register their legal right to citizenship in the UK. Amnesty described the policy as...

Taner Kılıç is being held with 23 other people in an eight-person cell Kılıç and the ‘Istanbul 10’ still face up to 15 years on ‘trumped-up’ terrorism charges Responding to today’s decision by the...

Amnesty International has discovered “brutal” illegal torture equipment on sale at a Paris arms fair. Items uncovered include spiked batons, spiked electric-shock riot forks, electric-shock vests and...