After a temporary halt between 2021 and 2022, executions surged once again. In 2024 alone, 122 people were put to death for ...

Budapest Pride took place as planned despite new anti-Pride laws passed in March and heavy-handed police tactics aimed at ...

Egyptian authorities must unconditionally and immediately release anyone detained for expressing solidarity with Palestinians ...

Amnesty International condemned on Monday a surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, highlighting particular concern for capital punishment used in cases of drug-related offenses and the ...

A Decade of Silence in Itai Dzamara Disappearance ©AP Photo  Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Zimbabwean journalist and pro-democracy activist Itai Peace Dzamara, ...

Ten years after China launched a sweeping crackdown on human rights lawyers, international rights groups led by Amnesty ...

Saudi Arabia witnessed a record surge in executions last year, with Amnesty International raising alarms over the high number ...

Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death.

The June 23 airstrikes on Evin prison, including the hospital ward, have turned it from a hated symbol of oppression into a ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is traveling Monday to Washington as Israel sends negotiators to Qatar amid ongoing talks ...

Human rights lawyer Ruth López, detained in El Salvador for alleged illicit enrichment, was moved to a harsher prison despite ...

In central Gaza, a boy stroked the face of his dead sister, 6-year-old Heba Abu Etiwi, in a morgue at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital. The girl and another of her brothers were among eight people killed ...