Amnesty International has urged the Indonesian authorities to provide protection for hundreds of Shi’a Muslims forced to return

The Saudi Arabian authorities should launch an independent investigation into the death of a Shi’a protester who was

The release of at least 130 political prisoners in Myanmar today—including well-known dissidents Htay Kywe, U Khun Htun

The Romanian authorities must re-open an investigation into CIA secret detention centres on its territory, Amnesty International said today after new evidence of secret prisons was revealed by a German

On a summer night in 2008, the wives of some Iranian members of Parliament started receiving phone calls. “Would you mind if I married your husband – just for a week?”

  A court in the Belarusian capital Minsk today handed down death sentences for two men after what Amnesty International said was a flawed trial that fell short of international standards.  The

The last nine months has seen a new wave of repression in Saudi Arabia as authorities have cracked down on protesters and reformists on security grounds, Amnesty International said today.  In

A power-transfer agreement reportedly granting Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and others immunity from prosecution in exchange for leaving office deals a serious blow to victims of human rights violations,

Amnesty International has welcomed the Government’s decision to start moving asylum seekers into the community for processing as a positive and long overdue step. The Government’s intention to release at least

Amnesty International has hailed the principled stance of a US state governor who this week imposed a moratorium on executions for the rest of his term in office. Oregon governor John