Burmese politician, human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Aung San Suu Kyi addresses Amnesty supporters at the Electric Burma con...

By Jeremy Bloom Campaigner, Central America Team Published on livewire.amnesty.org   Five days ago we started an exciting new f...

On 21 October, Amnesty International welcomed the Indian government's decision to reject plans for the expansion of an alumina refinery by a subsidiar...

31 March 2010 Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by the Philippine governmentto implement a United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution...

26 May 2009 Dr Binayak Sen, who spent two years in an Indian prison as a Prisoner of Conscience, was released on Tuesday after being grant...

The European Parliament has honoured a jailed Chinese dissident in absentia with its top human rights award. The assembly gave a one-minute standing...

18 March 2009 Authorities in Mexico have dropped the charges against four Indigenous human rights defenders who have been imprisoned for n...

24 February 2009 Twenty-four political prisoners were set free in Myanmar on Saturday after the government announced that it would release...

24 February 2009 UK resident Binyam Mohamed was released from detention in Guantánamo Bay on Monday and allowed to return to the UK. ...

2 February 2009 Four Egyptian newspaper editors convicted of publishing offences under a controversial press law have had their one-year pri...

29 January 2009 A prominent human rights lawyer in Indonesia has been cleared of charges relating to a text message he is alleged to have se...

21 January 2009 The Turkish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) solidarity organization, Lambda Istanbul, has won its appeal again...

5 January 2009 Two men wrongfully convicted in Cambodia of the murder of trade union leader Chea Vichea, have been released on bail after ne...