Iraq has already executed at least 129 people this year Amnesty International is calling on the Iraqi authorities to halt the execution of 28 prisoners whose death sentences were reportedly ratified...

Commission on Bill of Rights must not be a Trojan Horse for rights reduction Amnesty International said has said the UK government must not delay further on delivering a Bill of Rights for Northern...

Amnesty International said that there was a risk that a British Bill of Rights could be a ‘Trojan horse’ that results in reduced rights protection. The organisation was responding to the report issued...

The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague today acquitted Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui, who had been charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...

Asylum seekers and other migrants are the some of the hardest hit victims of Greece’s economic crisis, facing racist violence, squalid living conditions and a chaotic asylum system, Amnesty...

The truth in rendition cases could be ‘buried’ by new law ‘It’s a secret justice system straight from the pages of a Kafka novel’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International is warning that tomorrow’s debate...

‘The law is not just unjust, it is patently absurd’ - John Dalhuisen Amnesty International has written to Russian politicians urging them to reject a controversial draft law on the “promotion of...

Amnesty International has hailed a judgement from the West African regional ECOWAS court yesterday that the Nigerian government and multinational corporations have been responsible for years of...

Today’s conviction of the killer of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is welcome progress, Amnesty International said today, but the organisation urged Russian prosecutors “to keep digging” until...

Sattar Beheshti died in “Cyber Police” detention facility The mother of an Iranian blogger who died in custody last month was attacked by security forces as she mourned at her son’s graveside on...