Ruling is first time UK court has acknowledged risks of continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia UK has sold more than £4bn of arms to Saudi Arabia since Yemen conflict began ‘We welcome this judgment as...

Amnesty International today handed over more than 20,000 messages of support to No Stone Unturned journalists Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey. Collected during Amnesty’s 10-month campaign to support...

Tens of thousands of older women and men from ethnic minorities across Myanmar are being let down by a humanitarian system that fails to adequately address their rights and needs, Amnesty...

Responding to the news of former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi’s death in custody today (17 June), Magdalena Mughrabi, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: "The news of...

Responding to multiple suicide bomb attacks targeting people watching a football match on TV in Konduga, in north eastern Nigeria, Osai Ojigho Director Amnesty International Nigeria said: “These...

Responding to the news that Murtaja Qureiris, the young man from Saudi Arabia arrested at the age of 13 , will not face execution and has been sentenced to 12 years in prison instead, Lynn Maalouf...

Taibeh Abbasi, a 20-year-old whose case ignited huge protests, deported on Saturday ‘This deportation is emblematic of the cruel and dehumanising policies of many European governments’ - Massimo...

Nearly 50 people speak of their predicament, including Syrian family who could be forced to return to war-ravaged Syria ‘These are families who put their trust in the United States at their most...

Amnesty supporters to visit Richard Ratcliffe at his parallel hunger strike protest outside Iranian Embassy in London ‘It’s shocking that it’s come to this’ - Kate Allen Responding to news that the...

A group of cross-party MPs - including Diane Abbot, Jess Phillips, Nicky Morgan, Anna Soubry, Caroline Lucas, Dawn Butler and Harriet Harman - have written a letter to the Home Secretary Sajid Javid...