Amnesty International has strongly condemned a Pakistani court's decision to sentence two prominent Baloch activists to life ...

Both the activists are members of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), a civil rights movement advocating for an end to ...

Amnesty International says a recent Kyrgyz court ruling to uphold the life sentence of imprisoned ethnic Uzbek human rights activist Azimjan Askarov is a "triumph of injustice." The human rights ...

To whom it may concern, A. Introduction 1. My opinion is sought on the demand by the protest movement, and its supporters, for the non-prosecution of persons arrested during the ongoing civil ...

Lebanon is preparing for its largest amnesty since its civil war ended in 1990. The draft law is expected to pass soon and ...

Amnesty International on Thursday called on the authorities in Nigeria's Kano state to overturn the death sentence imposed on a singer for alleged blasphemy of Prophet Mohammed. The Barron's news ...

Amnesty's annual death penalty report catalogs encouraging signs, but setbacks in numbers of those sentenced to death Organization claims that governments around the world are using the threat of ...

Amnesty International on Monday urged the United Arab Emirates to “immediately” release 10 men who it said were being arbitrarily detained beyond their jail sentences. They were being kept in ...

Amnesty International is greatly concerned about the one year prison term imposed today on Slim Boukhdir, a freelance journalist, by a court in Sakiet Ezzit (Sfax) on charges of "insulting a public ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Global use of the death penalty is in decline, but there was a spike in ...

Amnesty International says Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been convicted of espionage. Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm’s ...

Amnesty International released a global report on the judicial use of death sentences and executions Monday, finding that death sentences decreased worldwide last year. The report includes 20 ...