The ruling by Tokyo's Shizuoka District Court brought an end to Iwao Hamakada's status as the world's longest serving death ...

A pair of blood-spattered trousers in a miso tank and an allegedly forced confession helped send Iwao Hakamata to death row ...

Three months after mass anti-government protests in Kenya, Amnesty International was set to present a petition on Wednesday ...

Amnesty also said Kenyan police that day unlawfully fired tear gas and beat and arbitrarily detained peaceful demonstrators, ...

A Hong Kong court sentenced a former editor of a shuttered news publication to 21 months in prison on Thursday in a sedition ...

Amnesty International called on Cameroonian authorities on Thursday to immediately release three supporters of a youth ...

Amnesty International is accusing big tech platforms of playing an active role in fuelling racist violence. The accusation comes after riots erupted in the UK this summer following the publication of ...

CDD-Ghana has condemned the unlawful tactic deployed by the Ghana Police Service in the arrest and detention of some 45 ...

Amnesty International on Monday called on the US to provide urgent humanitarian aid to more than 8000 displaced Syrians in ...

Amnesty International, an International human rights watchdog, has raised serious concerns about the ongoing extrajudicial ...

Says at least 4 such suspects "killed in mob violence” since May; suspension notifications issued for Mirpurkhas DIG, 9 ...