Amnesty International says executions in Saudi Arabia hit a record high last year, with 345 people put to death ...

Saudi Arabia executed 345 people last year, the highest number ever recorded by Amnesty in over three decades of reporting.

Amnesty International has found a "startling surge" in executions in Saudi Arabia, including many foreign nationals who were ...

The June 23 airstrikes on Evin prison, including the hospital ward, have turned it from a hated symbol of oppression into a ...

Brazil will play host to a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies Sunday and Monday during which pressing topics ...

The ban places Palestine Action in the same legal category as groups like al-Qaeda and ISIL (ISIS), making it a criminal offence to support or be associated with the protest group ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is travelling Monday to Washington as Israel sends negotiators to Qatar amid ongoing talks ...

Human rights lawyer Ruth López, detained in El Salvador for alleged illicit enrichment, was moved to a harsher prison despite ...

Europe's human rights watchdog Friday expressed concern that Serbian authorities were using excessive force and arbitrary ...

In central Gaza, a boy stroked the face of his dead sister, 6-year-old Heba Abu Etiwi, in a morgue at Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital. The girl and another of her brothers were among eight people killed ...

Amnesty International Nigeria has strongly condemned the killing of at least 15 people by suspected Lakurawa insurgents in ...