The Latest Breaking News from Amnesty International

The lack of affordable housing is driving people into homelessness, Amnesty report argues

After a long struggle to get her son released from jail, Barbara Farrat shed tears of joy when the moment arrived last week.

Amnesty International urged Croatia on Wednesday to release Aysoltan Niyazov, an activist and member of the band Pussy Riot who was arrested on an Interpol warrant and faces possible extradition to Turkmenistan.

Myanmar's military has likely used air strikes and artillery barrages as "collective punishment" against civilians opposing its coup, Amnesty International said Wednesday, accusing the junta of war crimes.

Amnesty International has called on authorities in the United Arab Emirates to release a group of dissidents who the human rights group said had completed prison terms earlier this year but not yet been freed.

An Algerian military officer-turned-democracy activist has been deported from Spain and charged in Algeria in a case that human rights groups see as another sign of an ever-expanding crackdown on dissent

Federico Soda said there needed to be ‘more condemnation’ of the conditions in state-run detention centres in Libya

Egyptian influencers, especially women, have become the target of a crackdown by authorities. At least a dozen women have been prosecuted since 2020 for ''attacking family values''. Two of them, Haneen Hossam and Mawada al-Adham, were sentenced to three and six years in jail on charges of "attacking society's values"…

At least 2,052 execution orders were passed in 56 countries, report says