Tag: Amnesty International

Venezuela says it is quitting the Organization of American States in anger at pressure from the bloc over the government's ...

An El Salvadoran transgender advocate, five detained Cambodian activists and an Egyptian legal scholar were nominated on Wednesday for one ...

As many as 1,000 Qatar World Cup construction workers are receiving health checks as part of a pilot programme agreed ...

Yemeni protestors reached the Red Sea city of Hodeida Tuesday, ending a weeklong march from the capital to demand the ...

A Chinese court indefinitely postponed the trial of a prominent human rights lawyer on Tuesday, his supporters said, in a ...

Dozens of artists including Roger Waters called Monday on Radiohead to cancel a concert in Israel, saying the band known ...

A Cameroon military tribunal on Monday sentenced a Radio France International correspondent to 10 years in prison for what it ...

A military court in Cameroon has convicted Ahmed Abba, a journalist for Radio France Internationale's (RFI) Hausa service, on charges ...

Malawi's refusal to push forward with prosecuting suspects accused of attacking and killing people with albinism has left a persecuted ...

Nigerians rallied Friday to mark the third anniversary of the mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls by Boko Haram, as their ...

Amnesty International has slammed an unprecedented ban by Thailand's junta on using the internet to communicate with three trenchant critics ...

An "alarming" number of children, most of them girls, have been used by Boko Haram as suicide bombers in the ...

Nigeria handed down an astonishing 527 death sentences in 2016, three times more than the previous year, in what Amnesty ...

A US strike on a Syrian air base is no substitute for a proper investigation and accountability after a devastating ...

One afternoon, young Mexican engineer Jethro Sanchez was out partying. Hours later, he was dying, his father says -- burned ...

The number of executions recorded worldwide in 2016 fell by 37% on the previous year, human rights group Amnesty International ...

US death penalty sentences fell to a historic low last year and executions also dropped sharply, contributing to a global ...

China executed more people in 2016 than all other nations combined, Amnesty International said Tuesday, as death penalties in the ...

Gunmen have shot dead four policemen, an army captain and a civilian in an attack on a community outside Nigeria's ...

Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo on Sunday, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority ...