The Persian holiday Nowruz (نوروز‎‎ – new day) is an ancient holiday celebrated on March 20th, the first day of spring, to welcome in the new year.  This holiday presents an opporunity to […]

RELEASED  WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2017 (00.01 GMT)          Amnesty International releases its Annual Report for 2016 to 2017            Risk of domino effect as powerful states backtrack on human […]

Canadian resident Saeed Malekpour has spent more than 8 years in Iran’s Evin prison. FREE SAEED MALEKPOUR He shouldn’t be there. He should be at home in Canada, taking walks in the country, […]

Since taking over at the White House, US President Donald Trump has wasted little time putting into action his poisonous campaign rhetoric. In his first couple of weeks in office, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]