There is growing evidence from across Ukraine of vigilante groups colluding with the police (pictured firing rubber bullets). © Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images This senseless loss of human life is deeply disturbing. The Ukrainian authorities must take all measures in their power to stop and...

21/02/2014 – Amnesty International has welcomed the decision of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General to open an investigation into the alleged rendition to Lithuania of Mustafa al-Hawsawi. The decision comes after the Vilnius Regional Court ruled on 28 January that al-Hawsawi had a right to an...

21/02/2014 – Amnesty International has documented numerous cases of excessive use of force by law enforcement officers in policing the demonstrations in Ukraine since November 2013 and calls on the authorities to take the following measures:

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...

Josh Bryan is an American living in Copenhagen, where he helped to launch a recent Amnesty International report on discrimination against transgender people in the European Union. He describes how strict Danish legislation has left him trapped in a system that doesn’t recognise his true...

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...

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...