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Verdict is ‘major step backwards for freedom of expression in Singapore’ Singapore dealt a sharp blow to freedom of expression by sentencing 76-year-old British author Alan Shadrake to jail for...

Two days after the release of Aung San Suu Kyi Amnesty has announced the launch of a project to deliver thousands of radios to the people of Burma. Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK...

Ahead of an EU-USA summit in Portugal (20 November), Amnesty International has called on the EU - including EU countries like the United Kingdom - to deliver justice for the victims of the CIA’s...

It only marks the end of an unfair sentence that was illegally extended, and is by no means a concession on the part of the authorities. Amnesty International today welcomes the release of Aung San...

Amnesty International has today called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release a blogger who the authorities continue to hold despite his completion of a four-year prison sentence. Kareem...

Amnesty International today called on the Indonesian government to block discriminatory moves to institute pregnancy and virginity tests for high school girls. Media reports earlier this week say that...

The Moroccan authorities must open an independent investigation into events that led to a number of deaths and injuries at Gadaym Izik, a protest camp near Laayoune, Western Sahara, Amnesty...

Amnesty International today condemned the two-and-a-half-year sentence given to a Chinese activist who organised a support group for parents of babies who became ill after drinking tainted milk...

In response to British prime minister David Cameron’s address to Peking University today, Sam Zarifi, Asia-Pacific Programme Director for Amnesty International, said: “Amnesty International welcomes...

The Hungarian authorities are failing in their duty to record, investigate, prosecute and punish all racially motivated crimes against Roma people, Amnesty International says in a new report published...