The Latest Breaking News from Amnesty International

Tehran says film-makers, athletes and actors who have backed demonstrations ‘fanned flames of riots’

An Amnesty International adviser was prevented from taking a scarf drawing attention to Qatar's treatment of migrant workers into Denmark's game against France on Sunday despite the home side's kit being designed to highlight the same cause.

Exclusive: Women and girls enduring ‘harassment, violence and arbitrary arrest’ for taking off headscarves in protests, campaigner says

Amnesty says at least four children among those killed by state forces since start of protests over woman’s death in custody

Iran’s president has called on his nation to “deal decisively with those who oppose the country’s security and tranquillity”, according to state media.

Human rights groups say thousands have lost their lives or been injured and are now urging the football governing body and the Qatari government to set aside around £338m for payouts

As of Friday, at least 30 people have died, according to the watchdog group Amnesty International.

Haitians crossing the southern border of the United States without proper documentation are being subjected to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill treatment that amounts to race-based torture, Amnesty International says in a new report marking the first anniversary of the migration crisis at the U.S. border in Del…

Amnesty International has accused Egypt of attempting to cover up  “unrelenting violations of human rights" ahead of the Arab country's hosting of the world climate summit