A St Petersburg court has sentenced a 19-year-old woman to nearly three years in a penal colony after she was accused of ...

Death penalty executions in the U.S. and worldwide increased in 2024 over the previous year according to a new Amnesty ...

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including ...

Amnesty Int’l Nigeria has slammed NBC’s ban on Eedris Abdulkareem’s song “Tell Your Papa,” calling it an unjustified attack ...

The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other ...

Ghana has called on government to urgently protect and compensate persons accused of witchcraft in society.The organisation said hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations and rituals attacks were ...

A leading international rights group has accused Mozambique's security forces of a brutal, three-month crackdown on protests ...

International hotel chains showing sanitised image of the Xinjiang region are serving Beijing’s propaganda, says rights group ...

The Maldives has banned Israeli passport holders from entering its territory, the president’s office said on Wednesday, ...