In response to the news that at least 50 people have been found dead in a trailer in San Antonio, Texas, and a dozen others who were onboard have been hospitalized, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said: “The tragedy in San Antonio is a devastating example of the...

QUOTE Responding to the crackdown and violent dispersal by police on Tuesday morning against protestors demonstrating against 14-hour long power cuts in Lyari in the city of Karachi, Rimmel Mohydin, Pakistan campaigner at Amnesty International said, “The authorities in Pakistan must not use...

Responding to today’s verdict by the First Terrorism Circuit in Cairo Criminal Court against 206 defendants, sentencing 10 people to death and 153 people to between 10 years and life in prison, Amna Guellali, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:...

The death toll continues to rise. At least 23 people died last Friday trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco. Some organisations working on the ground have put the death toll at 37. Their bodies await burial in hastily dug graves. But as far as we know, none of them have been...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL INDIA QUOTE Responding to the arrest of Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of ALT News, an independent fact-checking website by the Delhi Police late on Monday night for allegedly ‘hurting religious sentiments’ and ‘promoting enmity’ on Twitter, Aakar Patel, chair of board for...

Arbitrarily detained Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is being tortured and otherwise ill-treated in Shahr-e Rey prison in Varamin, outside Tehran, including by being intentionally denied the specialized healthcare including the medication she requires in reprisal for her human rights...

Amnesty International is making the following submission in response to a request for contributions by the Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and...

Amnesty International and the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) present their submission in response to the call for input by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change, focusing on questions 1, 2, 6 and 7.

A Uyghur student is set to go on trial for “separatism” in the city of Urumqi on Tuesday in what appears to be the latest example of the Chinese government’s strategy to unlawfully imprison Muslims in the country’s Xinjiang region, Amnesty International said today. Zulyar Yasin was detained at his...