Executions in 2025 soared to the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 1981, with 2,707 people executed across 17 countries, revealed the latest annual report from the human rights organization on the global use of the death penalty.

In its 2026 annual report, Amnesty International raises concerns about ongoing human rights violations in Thailand, including the detention of political prisoners and the lack of protection for refugees.

A new investigation by Amnesty International shows that a dozen casinos in Cambodia are directly linked to scamming compounds where torture, forced labour, child labour and human trafficking have taken place.

Amnesty International calls on both Thailand and Cambodia to protect civilians from further risks amidst renewed hostilities along the border.

The Cambodian government is deliberately ignoring a litany of human rights abuses including slavery, human trafficking, child labour and torture being carried out by criminal gangs on a vast scale in more than 50 scamming compounds located across the country, Amnesty International said in a new report published yesterday (26 June).

Ahead of the expiry of the statute of limitations this Friday, Amnesty International Thailand calls on the Thai authorities to enforce arrest warrants for former officials facing trial for the 25 October 2004 Tak Bai Massacre to ensure that there is no impunity for those responsible. Unless at least one of the defendants present themselves to court before 25 October, the case will be dismissed.

General counsel for the Israeli spyware firm NSO Group has testified in the Pegasus spyware case filed by a Thai activist for allegedly infringing privacy rights. This is the first time he has taken the stand as a defence witness to provide insight into how Pegasus functions. The verdict is scheduled for 21 November.

Amnesty International, in response to the Constitutional Court ruling to dissolve the Move Forward Party, has asserted that the Court's ruling is deemed an untenable decision that reveals the authorities’ complete disregard for Thailand’s international human rights obligations.

Amnesty International has called on Thai authorities not to forcibly return a Montagnard and Ede Indigenous human rights activist to Viet Nam where he would be at severe risk of torture. His extradition hearing will be held next week.

Executions recorded worldwide soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in its annual report on the global use of the death penalty.

Amnesty International Thailand and the Network for People's Amnesty today (5 February) submitted a petition signed by 7,301 people calling for the release of detained human rights lawyer Anon Nampa and for charges against him to be dropped. They also called for the repeal or amendments of laws violating people’s rights to freedom of expression.

Yesterday (6 November), the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and Amnesty International (AI) jointly submitted an amicus curiae legal brief to the Bangkok South Civil Court calling on the court to apply international human rights standards in a class action lawsuit filed by Cambodian farmers against the Thai sugar company Mitr Phol for alleged human rights abuses by its apparent subsidiary in Cambodia.