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Protesters demanding economic and social rights met by deadly force and mass arrests Two shot dead and more than 570 arrested – some as young as 11-years-old Amnesty International has interviewed...

Thousands of Ethiopians expelled by neighbouring Yemen in March left to languish in disease-ridden Saudi cells Reports of dead bodies in cells, with lack of soap and water creating acute COVID risk...

Amnesty International has welcomed today's announcement by the European Commission that it is initiating legal action against the UK Government as a result of the Internal Market Bill. The UK...

Amnesty International UK today called for the Human Rights Act to be celebrated all over the country to mark the 20th anniversary of the Act coming into force. The Act has been essential to the big...

‘For too long the Home Office has done its worst business behind closed doors’ – Kate Allen Responding to news that the UK Government is considering plans to create offshore asylum processing...

Prestigious Amnesty Media Awards 2020 winners announced 5 Live, The Impartial Reporter and BBC World Service also awarded top spots Entry for the 2021 awards now open ‘These awards recognise truly...

Technology firm provided services which led to separation of child migrants from parents Palantir has contract with NHS to facilitate Covid-19 datastore ‘The UK public have a right to know what sort...

Two-year campaign of harassment culminates in bank account freeze ‘ This is an egregious and shameful act by the Indian Government’ - Julie Verhaar Amnesty International has today (Tuesday 29...

Celebrities call to make safe and legal routes available so that fewer people will feel compelled to make dangerous Channel crossings Sir Patrick Stewart, Adwoa Aboah, Neil Gaiman, Richard Curtis and...

The men - from West Azerbaijan province - were tortured into making false confessions More than 100 people have suffered amputation punishments in recent years ‘Carrying out such unspeakably inhumane...