Aleksandr Pavlov, a 37-year-old asylum seeker in Spain and Kazakhstani national, is currently in detention in the capital city of Madrid. © Private Assurances of humane treatment from governments that routinely torture are useless.The Spanish government cannot and should not trust such empty...

© Maks Levin/LB.ua AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY Ukraine: Experts available for interview (19 February 2014) Amnesty International experts in Kyiv and London are monitoring the continuing violence between anti-government protestors and security forces in central Kyiv that has taken the...

The drowned migrants were among some 250 sub-Saharan Africans who had been attempting to cross into Ceuta on 6 February.© FADEL SENNA/AFP/Getty Images This loss of life is appalling, and the Spanish authorities must come clean on what happened – particularly as the Minister’s...

Burning/looting of Muslim property and a mosque in PK 26 area, north of the capital Bangui in late January.© Amnesty International The urgency of the situation demands an immediate response. It is time for the peacekeeping operation in CAR to protect the civilian population, deploy to threatened...

12/02/2014 – “Ethnic cleansing” of Muslims has been carried out in the western part of the Central African Republic, the most populous part of the country, since early January 2014. 1 Entire Muslim communities have been forced to flee, and hundreds of Muslim civilians who have not managed to...

12/02/2014 – As a group of international and European human rights and development organisations, we the undersigned are concerned about the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in the occupied Gaza Strip. In the context of ongoing discussions on European Union (EU) joint...

Missile debris from drone strike that killed 68 year old grandmother Mamana Bibi in Ghundi Kala, North Waziristan, Pakistan, on 24 October 2012.© Rafeequl Rehman The disappearance of Kareem Khan highlights the disturbing trend of targeting those who dare to speak publicly about human rights abuses...

11/02/2014 – In light of Italy’s obligations under international human rights and refugee law, and following up on the previous submission in August 2012, Amnesty International draws the Committee’s attention to the following areas which remain of concern to the organisation: the...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach during the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics.© ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP/Getty Images The police don’t give you food or drink; you have to knock on the locked cell door for half...

31/01/2014 – Amnesty International is concerned about recent forced evictions targeting Romani communities in Rome. The organisation has received reports of two forced evictions involving Romani families in the past week.

Action in Vilnius, 2011, calling on the Lithuanian President to re-open the criminal investigation into the CIA operated renditions and secret prisons in Lithuania © Amnesty International The Lithuanian court has set an example for all of Europe and the USA by upholding the rule of law and...

© Amnesty International There is a real danger of further escalation of what is already a human disaster. The peacekeeping forces have had an effect where they are deployed, but there are large swathes of the North West where there is a notable absence. Here towns have been attacked and there is a...