The Latest Breaking News from Amnesty

Istanbul authorities on Wednesday closed metro trains, buses and Bosphorous ferries, paralysing Turkey's biggest city in a bid to prevent May Day demonstrations.

Rights group Amnesty International Tuesday accused Israel of committing a "live-streamed genocide" against Palestinians in Gaza by forcibly displacing most of the population and deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe.

Ghanaian authorities have failed to protect the human rights of hundreds of women accused of witchcraft, Amnesty International has warned. Attacks by their accusers are forcing them to flee their communities in fear for their lives, taking shelter in camps with rudimentary facilities.

A leading international rights group has accused Mozambique's security forces of a brutal, three-month crackdown on protests after the country's election last year

Amnesty International Hong Kong Overseas will be led by Hong Kong activists operating from different countries.

AMNESTY International has warned against “dangerous misinformation” ahead of a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman.

President Ahmed al-Sharaa gives fact-finding committee a three-month extension to file report into Alawite killings.

Four men were publicly executed in Afghanistan on Friday, the Supreme Court said, the highest number of executions to be carried out in one day since the Taliban's return to power.

Amnesty International documents 36 cases of women and girls as young as 15 subjected to many forms of sexual violence.