Adriano da Nóbrega killed by police officers in Northern Brazil on Sunday In response to the death of Adriano da Nóbrega, a former policeman suspected of involvement in the murder of human rights...

Postgraduate student Patrick Zaki held at Cairo airport and interrogated for 17 hours while blindfolded Tortured at secret location, including with electric shocks Zaki is detained ‘solely for his...

‘The Salvadoran people do not deserve to relive years of tragedy and state abuses’ - Erika Guevara-Rosas El Salvador has deployed armed police and military soldiers to its Legislative Assembly...

A groundbreaking new book on open-source investigation will be launched by an expert panel event being held at Amnesty International UK’s headquarters in east London on 26 February. The new 386-page...

Investigative journalist Elena Milashina and human rights lawyer Marina Dubrovina set upon in Grozny hotel Pair had arrived in Chechen for trial of local blogger who filmed expensive properties owned...

Responding to the adoption of a resolution in Pakistan’s lower house of parliament calling for public hangings for people convicted of sexual abuse and murder of children, Omar Waraich, Amnesty...

Responding to the death of Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who was reprimanded by Wuhan police after he tried to issue the first warnings about the coronavirus, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty...

The outbreak of the coronavirus that started in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei province in late 2019 has now been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO). So far...

Shia minority and human rights activists targeted by the Specialised Criminal Court Grossly unfair trials often involve ‘confessions’ extracted under torture ‘Our research gives the lie to the shiny...

‘One year after the peace agreement was signed, violence against civilians has not stopped’ - Alice Banens Two former heads of state have recently returned to the country and should be investigated...