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

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

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

A new report published by Amnesty International today draws attention to a startling surge in executions in Saudi Arabia in recent years, ...

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

Ten years after the Chinese government’s widespread crackdown on human rights lawyers, concerned governments and the United ...

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

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

More than 600 Palestinians have been killed and more than 4,000 wounded attempting to access aid from the Israel and ...

On June 27th, over 40 civil society organisations and prominent individuals from at least 15 countries across the Caribbean have signed on to an open ...

In the weeks since the conflict began, Iranian authorities have arrested more than 700 citizens—all accused of collaborating ...

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