Syrian government executed thousands of prisoners in mass hangings at Saydnaya prison, says rights watchdog... READ MORE›
As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in Syria, Amnesty International says... READ MORE›
A report by Amnesty International describes how as many as 13,000 people have been hanged and buried in mass graves at a prison outside Damascus... READ MORE›
Almost 4 million people displaced from Syria have registered with the UN high commissioner for refugees... READ MORE›
Satellite images and footage showing makeshift graveyards reveal plight of stranded refugees, Amnesty says... READ MORE›
Prostitution has always been considered a domestic matter, and now Amnesty could elevate it to a point of international human rights law, said Francis A... READ MORE›
Amnesty said the toll just in west Mosul from attacks launched by pro-government forces was very likely higher than the 3,706 estimated by monitoring group Airwars... READ MORE›
Turkish police have arrested eight leading human rights activists including Amnesty International's Turkey director Idil Eser in Istanbul... READ MORE›
After the vote, the Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution, a French organization, vowed that it would no longer work with Amnesty International... READ MORE›
Human rights at risk amid rise of 'fear and disunity' Amnesty International... READ MORE›
Even states that once claimed to champion rights abroad are now too busy rolling back human rights at home to hold others to account, Amnesty said... READ MORE›
The Colombian government has pardoned at least 110 FARC rebels as part of a peace deal to end a 52-year conflict, the country's justice minister said... READ MORE›
Rights group Amnesty International has accused Qatar of using forced labour at a flagship World Cup 2022 stadium... READ MORE›
Amnesty report accuses Fifa and Qatari authorities of ongoing indifference to systemic abuse of workers on stadiums that will host the 2022 World Cup... READ MORE›
At least 778 executions were carried out across the world in 2013, with even more death sentences handed down. This interactive shows statistics gathered by Amnesty International... READ MORE›
The document reiterates Amnesty's continuing opposition to human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors... READ MORE›
Amnesty estimates that China is the world's top executioner, with deaths last year in the thousands... READ MORE›
Similarly, Jarrar said that Israeli officials at the border criticised and questioned him over Amnesty's work on settlements... READ MORE›
'War on the poor' Amnesty slams Duterte's anti-drug campaign as 'crime against humanity' -- RT News... READ MORE›
Richard Bennett, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Programme Director, said: "The Thai authorities must initiate an independent, effective and transparent investigation into mounting allegations of torture and other ill-treatment by police... READ MORE›
US-backed Kurdish forces 'committing war crimes against Syrian civilians'... READ MORE›
Last year at least 2,466 death sentences were passed in 55 countries, says Amnesty, up from 1,925 in 2013... READ MORE›
Sickened by reports from Amnesty International on executions in Syria... READ MORE›
Amnesty says the proposed policy drew on an extensive evidence base, including UN agencies, sex workers, abolitionist organisations and anti-trafficking groups... READ MORE›
This is not a legitimate prosecution, Salil Shetty, Amnesty's international director, said in a statement... READ MORE›
Istanbul's Taksim square fills on Sunday for first cross-party rally to condemn coup plot against Recep Tayyip Erdogan... READ MORE›
China must come clean about the 'grotesque' level of capital punishment, Amnesty said in a news release accompanying its 2016 global review of the death penalty... READ MORE›
Eight human rights activists on trial in Turkey on alleged terror charges, including a senior Amnesty International official, have been released on bail... READ MORE›
Amnesty said the Forensic Medical Authority was due to subject the six men to anal examinations to determine whether they have had homosexual sex... READ MORE›
Western-backed Kurdish forces are deliberately destroying Arab villages in a revenge campaign that could amount to war crimes, according to a new Amnesty International report... READ MORE›
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