National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) agents raided the office of a prominent human rights lawyer, Nabil Adib, in Khartoum on 5 May and arrested 10 people.

Photographer and prisoner of conscience Ahmad Fardan has been released after completing his three-month prison sentence on 18 April.

The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal against its ruling, upholding the death sentence against Motiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami.

This resource supports Amnesty Speakers to introduce students, aged 11-19, to the Human Rights Act.

A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off.

A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body parts are being sold for use in ritual purposes.

A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body parts are being sold for use in ritual purposes.

Rayhana al-Mousawi, one of two women protesters at the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix, has been released as part of a royal pardon on 20 April.

This month we are focussing on Khadija Esmayilova, an award-winning investigative journalist and outspoken government critic in Azerbaijan who has been locked up by the authorities for exposing corruption. She is a prisoner of conscience and must be released immediately.

The Supreme Court of Belarus upheld the death sentence of Gennadii Yakovitskii on 4 April. He is now at imminent risk of execution.