Arrests of app users including Maedeh Hojabri after posting videos prompt outrage

Human rights group highlights anti-government protests in annual report and accuses city’s police force of ‘arbitrary arrests, physical assaults, and abuses in detention’.

The passing of legislation in Finland that abolishes the harmful requirements for trans people to endure invasive medical and psychiatric procedures before they can have their gender recognized is a...

Responding to reports of a total communications blackout in the occupied Gaza Strip, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Senior Director of Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International, said:...

Botswana’s High Court has overturned a colonial-era law criminalizing consensual same-sex relations in a landmark victory for Africa’s LGBTQ movements.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Soldiers from Eritrea systematically killed “many hundreds” of people, the large majority men, in a massacre late November in the Ethiopian city of Axum in the Tigray region,...

A dark day for LGBTI rights as homophobic and transphobic law similar to Russia's "Gay Propaganda Law" adopted

Security forces in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, have targeted Tigrayans, including children and the elderly, with arbitrary arrests and mass detentions as part of an escalating crackdown,...

China: Hong Kong youths held in mainland China must get fair trial

Amnesty International to launch campaign to highlight Ethiopia conflict

It is Azerbaijan’s obligation to ensure that the population in Nagorno-Karabakh is not denied access to food and other essential goods.

Myanmar's military has turned the courts and prison system into a human rights inferno.

As Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to visit Myanmar, Amnesty International called on him to prioritise human rights action over empty gestures.

Amnesty International confirms the brutal massacre of possibly hundreds of civilians in Mai-Kadra in Ethiopia's western Tigray state. The organization gathered testimonies, and its Crisis Evidence...

Israeli authorities have launched a shocking assault on human rights by designating six Palestinian civil society groups terror organizations

A prominent expert on national security and human rights at Amnesty International, Julia Hall has spent the last two decades working on extraordinary renditions, CIA black sites and Guantanamo and...

The airline's staff treated her in a discriminatory and racist manner

Extrajudicial executions, rape, arbitrary arrests and detentions, sometimes of entire families, homes burnt down, forcible evictions. ...

Myanmar’s de facto leader was jailed for four years in the first of many expected verdicts since the military arrested her on 1 February.

Relentless air attacks across Myanmar highlight the urgent need to suspend the import of aviation fuel.

From Lebanon to Chile to Hong Kong, protests are breaking out everywhere.

Photo of Assange at Occupy London, 2011 by Stefan Simanowitz

"The USA must drop all the charges against Assange and the UK must halt the extradition proceedings, which will allow for his prompt release from UK state custody."

Responding to reports that the Biden Administration has approved a $735 million sale in weapons to Israel, Philippe Nassif, the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty...

Responding to today’s passing of a national security law for Hong Kong by the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress, the head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Joshua Rosenz...

We appreciate that the government has a legitimate interest in protecting bona fide national security interests, but the proceedings against Julian Assange jeopardize journalism

Responding to the detention of investigative journalist Ariane Lavrilleux who reported on leaked documents alleging that French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt, Amnesty Internati...

Latvian authorities have violently pushed back refugees and migrants at the country’s borders with Belarus, subjecting many to grave human rights violations, including secret detention and even...

Nicaraguan authorities have adopted a strategy of repression, characterized by the excessive use of force, extrajudicial executions, control of the media, and the use of pro-government armed groups,...

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