Amnesty International

Amnesty International has called on the Egyptian authorities to abolish "unfair" sentences issued on Tuesday against 163 people, including ten people who were handed the death penalty, saying the...

South Africa's Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor called on the international community to take action to put an end to the ongoing grievances the Palestinians are experiencing and to hold...

At least 28,670 people were on death row around the world at the end of 2021, Amnesty International said in a report released yesterday, with Iran, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...

Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human rights defender held under Tel Aviv's administrative detention policy for another three months, Anadolu News Agency reports. "The...

Amnesty International yesterday condemned an Egyptian court that sentenced a former presidential candidate to 15 years in prison. On Sunday, an emergency court handed Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, 70, a 15-year jail...

Activists and rights organisations are sceptical about the Egyptian government's pledge to allow protesters to demonstrate in a "facility adjacent to the conference centre" at the upcoming COP27. Egypt...

Egyptian courts sentenced 356 people to death in 2021, the highest number of death sentences worldwide, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Death Penalty 2021: Facts and...

Amnesty International said there were at least 1,000 people on death row in Algeria by the end of 2021, noting that the state does not apply the death penalty...

The mother of a renowned Egyptian-British activist, Laila Soueif, says she fears she may not see her son alive again as he approaches the end of the sixth week...

The Libyan Government of National Unity yesterday accused Amnesty International of "politicising work and following the path of systematic prejudice against the interests of the Libyan state." This came...

Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to lift its draconian travel bans targeting activists and their families and has launched a campaign highlighting the plight of 30 activists...

Around 600 Palestinians are currently being held by Israel under administrative detention orders, according to the Israeli human rights group HaMoked. The number is the highest since 2016 when...

Cuts in international aid to north-west Syria from the UK and other western nations are causing a healthcare crisis and leading to millions in the region being impacted by...

More than 40,000 Syrian children are out of education as a direct result of British aid cuts, says a leading charity Syria Relief and its parent charity, Action For...

Amnesty International and a political party in Algeria have called for an investigation into the death of a political activist while he was on remand. A few days ago,...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has welcomed the release of Egyptian journalists Mohamed Salah and Abdo Fayad but called on the Egyptian authorities to release 23 other reporters still in prison....

Amnesty International has called on French President Emmanuel Macron to make the protection of human rights a priority for his second term in office after he beat his far-right rival...

The Egyptian government has released nine Coptic Christians who were arrested after a protest demanding that a church be rebuilt in Minya governorate. The nine protesters were interrogated whilst...

The resignation of US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield after less than six months in the role and at a time of persistent political turmoil...

Amnesty International has slammed a bill introduced by two staunch pro-Israeli Republican members of Congress designed to deny federal financial support to the human rights group. Senators Rick Scott...

Amnesty International said a number of political activists who have been arbitrarily detained in Egypt's notorious Tora Prison have started a hunger strike to protest the harsh conditions and...

French-Palestinian human rights defender, Salah Hamouri, yesterday filed a complaint in France against notorious Israeli spyware maker Pegasus for spying on his mobile phone, Amnesty International revealed. Hamouri filed the complaint together...

Amnesty International yesterday called on Saudi Arabia to release four Uyghur, including a mother and her 13-year-old daughter, and not send them to China where they could face torture....

Amnesty International said on Wednesday that it will apologise formally to Morocco if the international judiciary prove that the authorities in Rabat did not use NSO Group spyware against...

Amnesty International has urged the Egyptian authorities to release nine Coptic Christians who were arbitrarily detained at the end of January after protesting against the authorities' refusal to rebuild...

Amnesty International has criticised war crimes in Ukraine likening the devastation there to Syria and Iraq. "What is happening in Ukraine is a repetition of what we have seen...

Amnesty International has singled out the UK for strong criticism in its annual survey of human rights, expressing serious concern for a raft of government legislation. Particularly worrying is...

Amnesty International has called on Friday for Egypt to stop the deportation of Eritrean refugees to their home, where they would face serious human rights violations, including torture. The...

Amnesty International, yesterday, called on the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, to release the retired journalist, Tawfik Ghanem, who has been detained since May 2021. "Free 66 year-old journalist...

Some 211 rights groups and NGOs yesterday called for the international community to respect Amnesty International's report which labelled Israel an apartheid state, Quds Press reported. In a joint statement, the rights groups...

Amnesty International issued a statement responding to the Egyptian Court of Cassation's decision to uphold the conviction of Amal Fathy, a women's rights defender who criticised the Egyptian authorities'...

There is no doubt that the report by Amnesty International issued earlier this month pleased all the free people of the world, not only the Palestinians, and gave us...