Amnesty International

The national head of Amnesty International told AFP on Wednesday that the rights organization has accused Nigerian security forces of killing at least 21 protestors during a week of demonstrations against economic hardship. Following hundreds of...

According to rights organization Amnesty International, China is persecuting its people who are studying overseas because of their political activism. Several students have said that their relatives have been harassed at home. China has cracked down...

News Hour: The Chinese authorities are demonstrating new-depths of cruelty by preventing Liu Xiaobo from leaving the country to receive urgent medical treatment for his late-stage liver cancer, Amnesty International said. On Wednesday, the authorities announced...

News Hour: The conviction of an Israeli soldier who shot dead a Palestinian man involved in a knife attack in Hebron as he lay wounded on the ground offers a small glimmer of hope amid the...

News Hour: Italian police have used beatings and electric shocks, potentially constituting “torture”, to coerce migrants into being fingerprinted as Italy cracks under pressure from the EU, Amnesty International said on Thursday. “The European Union’s pressure...

News Hour: Amnesty International has called on Pakistan to release hundreds of opposition activists detained before a planned mass protest, as police used tear gas and rubber bullets overnight to prevent demonstrators from entering Islamabad. Prime...

News Hour: Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating...

News Hour: Bahraini authorities must immediately release human rights defender Nabeel Rajab and drop all charges against him ahead of his trial next week over Twitter posts criticizing the war in Yemen and allegations of torture...

News Hour: Horrifying accounts of sexual violence, killings, torture and religious persecution collected by Amnesty International reveal the shocking range of abuses along the smuggling routes to and through Libya. Amnesty International spoke to at least...

News Hour: The Malaysian authorities’ failure to hold anyone accountable for the death in custody of N. Dharmendran raises serious questions about their commitment to ending serious human rights violations, Amnesty International said today. The statement...