A chilling new report by Amnesty International exposes the Syrian government’s calculated campaign of extrajudicial executions by mass hangings at Saydnaya Prison. Between 2011 and 2015, every week and often twice a week, groups of up to 50 people were taken out of their prison cells and hanged...

With Prof. Homa Hoodfar, Mohamed Fahmy and other ex-prisoners of conscience. Friday, February 3, 2017, 6:30 to 8:30 PM University of Toronto Earth Sciences Building Auditorium, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto Launching a campaign for the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian permanent resident unjustly...

Extrajudicial executions may amount to crimes against humanity Police plant evidence, take under-the-table cash and fabricate reports Paid killers on police payroll Acting on instructions from the very top of government, the Philippines police have killed and paid others to kill thousands of...

By Salil Shetty, Secretary General at Amnesty International The gloves are off. With today’s Executive Order on “Protecting the Nation from Terrorist Attacks by Foreign Nationals,” President Donald J. Trump has declared war on Muslim refugees around the world.     With the stroke of a pen,...

Responding to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s and the police’s announcements that they are suspending anti-drug operations, Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Director Tirana Hassan said: “Even as the police have vowed to shut their operations down, President Duterte has...

Released: 10:01 GMT 17 January 2017 Sweeping new laws are driving Europe into a deep and dangerous state of permanent securitization, Amnesty International said on the publication of a comprehensive human rights analysis of counter-terrorism measures across 14 EU member states. Dangerously...

Amnesty International USA Release The Pardon Snowden campaign delivers signatures to White House; prominent supporters call for President Obama to pardon whistleblower before Jan. 20 (New York) – Today the Pardon Snowden campaign delivered more than 1 million signatures to President Barack...

Militias allied to the Iraqi government have access to arms from at least 16 countries Recent arms transfers have fuelled enforced disappearances, abductions, torture, summary killings, and deliberate destruction of civilian property Iraq is the world’s sixth-largest importer of heavy weaponry...

Refugees in the region TAKE ACTION: Join Amnesty’s call to Syria, Iran and Russia to urgently protect civilians in Aleppo   ore than 4.8 million Syrian refugees are in just five countries Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt: Turkey hosts 2.7 million Syrian refugees, more than any...

By Amnesty International Staff It seems like wherever you look, people have written 2016 off as a terrible year. But thanks to you, we’ve found a lot to be positive about, too.  This year, you helped us free more than 650 people – that’s nearly two each day – from unfair and often abusive...

By Anna Neistat, Amnesty International’s senior director for research Seventeen years ago, Kofi Annan stood before the United Nations and apologized. The then-secretary-general acknowledged that the UN had failed the people of Rwanda during the 100-day genocide in which almost a million...

For the first time, Amnesty International’s flagship global human rights campaign is taking aim at a human rights case in Canada. On December 10th, activists around the world will call for a stop to the Site C hydroelectric dam in northeastern British Columbia – one in ten cases around the...