The Amnesty International has condemned attacks meted out to a journalist, Eyo Charles, by a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. Fani-Kayode was seen in a...
Tragedy struck at the prison in Farafagana in Madagascar at around 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT) when no fewer than 20 inmates were killed and several...
Rights group, Amnesty International has accused the Federal Government of Nigeria of leaving rural communities at the mercy of rampaging bandits. The group which made the...
Amnesty International has stated that the potential turmoil being stirred up by various factions ahead of the gubernatorial election in Edo State should send clear danger...
Amnesty International has called on Kano State government to quash the death sentence on Yahaya Sharif Aminu for blasphemy. It described the sentence as a travesty...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International, on Friday accused the police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of engaging in suspects’ torture and extrajudicial executions. In a new report titled:...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International, Wednesday condemned the arrest of one Nastura Sharif, who allegedly organized a series of protests against the Federal Government in Katsina a...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International Wednesday asked President Muhammadu Buhari to declare rape as a national crisis in the country. The organization said that it joined its...
Amnesty International on Saturday regretted that after four years, justice was yet to come the way of about 60 pro-Biafra protesters killed in Nkpor, Anambra State....
The Nigerian military has faulted a report by rights group Amnesty International (AI) that it is subjecting children in the northeast ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency...
Amnesty International has described as unlawful the arrest and detention of a journalist for criticising the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed. The rights group...
Rights group, Amnesty International (AI) has accused the Nigerian military of subjecting children in the northeast ravaged by Boko Haram insurgency to unlawful treatment and detention....
Human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) has urged the Federal Government led by President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that health workers in the frontline of COVID-19...
Amnesty International has called on the Kano State government led by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje to respect Muhammadu Sanusi’s human rights, right to dignity, freedom of expression...
The Federal Government of Nigeria led by President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Amnesty International to stop tagging Nigerian troops as “the bad guys” in their...
Ahead of the burial of parents of leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, in Afara Ukwu, Abia State, on Friday, rights group, Amnesty...
Rights group, Amnesty International has reacted to the killing of the chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), in Michika Local Government Area of Adamawa...
The Civil Liberties Organization, CLO has called for proactive steps to protect Rivers State residents over the incessant occurrences of cult clashes in various communities in...
Rights watchdog, Amnesty International on Thursday issued a damning report over the number of people killed due to incessant cult clashes in various communities Rivers State...
United Nations, Amnesty International, and Action Against Hunger have all condemned the execution of the four abducted humanitarian workers by Boko Haram. The victims, who were...
Amnesty International joined the ranks of Facebook and Google critics on Wednesday, saying the two companies have “surveillance-based business models” that threaten human rights and undermine...
Amnesty International has declared the convener of #RevolutionNow protest, Omoyele Sowore, his compatriot, Olawale Bakare and a journalist, Agba Jalingo as prisoners of conscience. It said...
A report by Amnesty International has revealed that 119 Nigerians are among a total of 1,281persons currently on death sentence in Malaysia. The Nigerians, according to...
The seven-count charge slammed against human rights activist, Omoyole Sowore, who is the co-convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, has been condemned by human rights group, Amnesty...
The violent handling of protesters in Hong Kong by local police has been condemned by Amnesty International which described the abuse of demonstrators as “reckless and...
Global human rights organization, Amnesty International has called for the immediate release of Omoyele Sowore, African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate in the last election, and...
Global rights group, Amnesty International, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration of sponsoring protest against it for condemning the government’s fatal use of force against...
Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) has called on Amnesty International to immediately leave Nigeria. It accused the international organisation of calling on Nigerians to revolt against President...
The proscription of Shi’ite group, Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) has been condemned by rights group, Amnesty International. According to Amnesty International, the move by the...
Rights group Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to conduct an “urgent” investigation into President of the Philippine Rodrigo Duterte’s “murderous war on drugs”....
The Nigeria Police and the military have come under another scathing criticism from Amnesty International, AI, over their continuous use of torture despite law forbidding the...
Amnesty International on Friday urged Nigerian Government to abolish the death penalty. The group and urged the government to put an end to torture as a...
Amnesty International, AI, has said that the proper administration of justice holds the key to ending the protracted Boko Haram insurgency ravaging the Northest geopolitical zone....
An international human rights group on Tuesday provided evidence stating that US military airstrikes in Somalia have killed or wounded nearly two dozen civilians in the...
Senegalese president, Macky Sall has been officially re-elected to run a second term in office after the country’s constitutional council confirmed his victory in the February...
The Nigerian Army on Saturday dismissed as false reports by Amnesty International alleging that 60 displaced persons were killed by Boko Haram insurgents at Rann community...
At least 60 persons were killed in the recent Boko Haram attack in Rann, a border town in Borno State, according to Amnesty International. In a...
Garba Shehu,Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, says Amnesty International gave a wrong impression about the origins of the farmers-herdsmen clashes. He...
The presidency has justified the frustration of the Nigerian Army leading to its call for the closure of Amnesty International offices in Nigeria. The presidency expressed...
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has said that the protection of human rights is a cardinal objective of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. He...
The Nigerian Military has levelled damning allegation against Amnesty International (AI) following its latest report on the Dapchi abduction in which it accused the military of...
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has described as unfair, and one sided, the claim by the Amnesty International (AI) that it usually employs use of ‘excessive’...
Amnesty International has condemned the wave of violence in Nigeria, calling on government “to do more to end epidemic of gruesome killings of dozens of people...
Amnesty International has called on government to halt its violent campaign of demolitions and forced evictions of waterfront communities in Lagos State which it said had...
Amnesty International has revealed that no less than 17 people have been killed thus far following clashes between security forces and protesters in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions....
Amnesty International on Friday responded to the reports of human rights abuses following the clash involving the Nigerian Army and members of the Indigenous People of...
In a move which seeks to tighten its grip on religious activities in the country, Chinese government has banned children from attending churches. The new directive...
As it marked International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International revealed that hundreds of people are being held in secret detention facilities in Nigeria. The group...
With the help of the Amnesty International, widows of four of the nine men executed by Nigeria’s military regime in 1995, have dragged Royal Dutch Shell...
There is outcry in Tunisia after a man was jailed for one month for “public indecency” by a court in north-western Bizerte town after he was...
