Tag: Amnesty International

Shadowy assassins are still killing poor Filipinos, despite a police withdrawal from Rodrigo Duterte's deadly drug war, a rights group ...

Seven Hong Kong police officers were jailed for two years today for what the judge described as a 'vicious' attack ...

President Bashar al-Assad on Thursday said Raqa is not a priority target for his forces, saying his goal is to ...

A cabinet minister who claimed to have ordered police to torture rape suspects should be investigated for human rights abuses, ...

Amnesty International called on Tuesday for an Indian cabinet minister to be investigated for human rights abuses after she claimed ...

Tunisia's prime minister on Tuesday rejected German claims that his country has been blocking the return of rejected asylum seekers ...

Syria's regime is ready to release detainees in exchange for hostages held by rebels, the official SANA news agency reported ...

A rise in "brutal tactics" by Tunisian security forces in line with nationwide emergency laws to counter terrorism are threatening ...

A prominent Sudanese human rights activist has begun a hunger strike in detention and the authorities have accused him of ...

The Kremlin said on Monday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were "unacceptable" comments one ...

As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in ...

Amnesty International has accused the Philippine police of "systematically planning" extrajudicial killings in the controversial war against drugs. The rights ...

A UK High Court ruling that two Niger Delta communities devastated by oil spills cannot have their claims against Shell ...

"I have decided today in good conscience to relinquish the mantle of leadership of this great nation with infinite gratitude ...

Hundreds of thousands are gathering for a “Women’s March on Washington”, part of a global day of protests against new ...

A raft of new counterterrorism laws across Europe discriminate against Muslims and refugees, spreading fear and alienation, Amnesty International said ...

The Ivory Coast government has just thumbed its nose at the efforts by the U. S. to expand its role ...

When Boko Haram fighters decided to release some of the 200 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped two-and-a-half years ago in northeast Nigeria, ...

Myanmar's treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority threatens to undermine the region's security and stability, Malaysia's Foreign Minister said Monday ...

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte should be impeached after he admitted to personally killing drug suspects, one of his top critics ...