Human rights groups accuse Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of using capital punishment as a tool following nationwide ...

Coverage of Syria’s prisons overlooks their decades-long use as key destinations for extraordinary rendition, where terror ...

At least 901 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including about 40 in a single week in December, according to ...

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

Five critics of Angola’s President Joao Lourenco have been freed after more than a year in detention, including a prominent TikToker, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Authorities in Angola released Tiktoker Neth Nahara, who is featured in this year's Write for Rights campaign, along with ...

No one should put any trust in the court system to stop the U.S. government from using tax dollars for war. But suing members ...

Iran executed a record 1,000 people in 2024, almost 70 per cent of them after its new “reformist” president took office.

Negotiators have made little progress towards an enduring ceasefire over a year into deadly conflict and humanitarian crisis, ...

Amnesty Israel denies claims that it is conducting itself in a racist manner towards Palestinians, a reason given by the ...

Saudi Arabia has put six Iranians to death for drug trafficking, the interior ministry said Wednesday, after a year in which ...

IB Amnesty International interim chair said that ""AI Israel has sought to publicly discredit Amnesty’s human rights research ...