Amnesty International Scotland today (31 July) raised its concerns for the health and well being of Kenny Richey, the Scot on Death Row in Ohio. After nineteen and a half years awaiting execution...

Responding to the UN Human Rights Committee conclusions regarding the USA’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Amnesty International said that the United...

Amnesty International has written to UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett expressing its grave concern about the continuing transfer of weapons from the US, via the UK, to arm the conflict in Israel...

Ashraf Kolhari, a mother of four Children's rights between the ages of nine and nineteen, is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery. She has received the order for the implementation of...

Following the allegations in The Daily Telegraph (UK airport used to fly bombs to Israel 26.7.06) that Prestwick Airport has been used as a staging post to transport UK ‘bunker-busting bombs’, Amnesty...

Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan has today published an Open Letter addressed to foreign ministers meeting in Rome to discuss the crisis in Lebanon and Israel. The letter calls on...

Amnesty International today condemned the Latvian authorities’ failure to protect the physical security of the LGBTI (LGBT) community as it celebrated “Riga Pride 2006” on Saturday (22 July). Anders...

Country’s notorious security agency’s use of torture instrumental in ‘war on terror’ Jordan is a key “hub” in the USA’s secret “renditions” programme, said Amnesty International today (24 July), as it...

Amnesty International Wales has urged users of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. The call to action...

Amnesty International today (20 July) urged users of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. The call to...