In line with its mandate to promote and protect the rights guaranteed under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Charter), and in recognition of the potential human rights ...

The EU-Turkey refugee deal has left thousands of refugees and migrants in squalid and dangerous living conditions, and must not be replicated with other countries, Amnesty International said today ...

The adoption of a draft law by the Philippine House of Representatives to revive the death penalty sets the country on a dangerous path in flagrant violation of its international legal obligations, ...

Russian authorities have blatantly misused the criminal justice system, including draconian anti-extremist legislation, in a show trial against blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, said Amnesty International ...

A new law signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin banning anonymizers and virtual private networks (VPNs) is a major blow to internet freedom in Russia, Amnesty International said today. “With the ...

Begin maart arresteerde Egypte Omar Mahmoud Abdel Maguid, Hussein Mohammed Al-Tenawi en Hazem Saied Abdel Moatamed. Ze zijn ...

Oscar Smith zit al 25 jaar in de dodencel in de Amerikaanse staat Tennessee. In 1990 werd hij veroordeeld voor de moord op ...

De Malinese schrijver Etienne Sissoko zat een jaar willekeurig in de gevangenis vanwege een boek dat hij schreef. Op 27 maart ...

Tientallen mannen die in Saudi-Arabië in de dodencel zitten voor drugsgerelateerde misdrijven vrezen voor hun leven ...

The European Court of Human Rights has decided to issue an interim measure in the case Đorović and Others v. Serbia. The case concerns the alleged use of a sonic weapon for crowd control by the ...