- Oct 21 2015
- 2:42pm
- Bahrain: one-year jail sentence for activist who ripped up King's photo is 'ludicrous'
- Conviction against Zainab Al-Khawaja denounced as ‘vindictive assault on freedom of expression’
- Oct 21 2015
- 12:00am
- South-east Asia: thousands of Rohingya refugees may have perished at sea - new report
- 100 new testimonies show how persecuted Rohingya refugees from Burma suffered horrific abuses on board boats where beatings were systematic
- Oct 20 2015
- 12:25pm
- ANGOLA: HUNGER STRIKING RAPPER IN CRITICAL CONDITION
- Activist and musician Luaty Beirão admitted to hospital on 15 October
- Oct 20 2015
- 12:24pm
- FATHER TED WRITER GRAHAM LINEHAN JOINS FORCES WITH AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TO FIGHT IRELAND’S REPRESSIVE ABORTION LAWS
- “These cruel and dangerous abortion laws have no place in a modern country.” – Graham Linehan
- Oct 19 2015
- 7:09pm
- Saudi Arabia: leading human rights activist Abdulkareem al-Khoder jailed for ten years
- Abdulkareem al-Khoder’s list of offences included ‘disobeying the ruler’
- Oct 16 2015
- 12:36pm
- SAUDI ARABIA: FEARS GROW OVER IMPENDING EXECUTION OF THREE YOUNG ACTIVISTS
- Ali al-Nimr, Dawood Hussein al-Marhoon and Abdullah Hasan al-Zaher have been moved to solitary confinement
- Oct 15 2015
- 4:40pm
- Hundreds to protest as Chinese President Xi Jinping visits London
- On Tuesday 20 October, the first day of a state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping, (20-23 October) Amnesty International and various groups concerned with human rights issues in China, will pro
- Oct 15 2015
- 4:40pm
- US Congress must launch urgent inquiry into Obama's drone use
- The US Congress must launch an immediate independent inquiry into the Obama administration’s drone strikes overseas, Amnesty International said following today’s publication of a series
- Oct 15 2015
- 11:00am
- Indonesia: New report on justice flaws in death penalty case
- Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into “confessions” through severe beatings, while foreign nationals facing the death penalty have
