Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in

Latest posts

Dec 6 2017 11:51PM
Major trends of human rights violations in Mainland China and Hong Kong

Ahead of Human Rights Day, there have been major trends in human rights violations in Mainland China and Hong Kong. This past autumn, Yang Tongyan (a.k.a. Yang Tianshui), a freelance writer and democracy veteran, died of brain cancer...

Dec 6 2017 11:10AM
Torture and other Ill-treatment under the Chinese Communist Party rule

The Chinese Noble Laureate for Peace Liu Xiaobo(刘晓波) has been sentenced to eleven years' imprisonment, in his 8th year in prison he was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Prisoners of conscience have deliberately been tortured by...

Dec 6 2017 11:09AM
Stand Up for International Principles and Call on China to End Its Human Rights Violations

Dear Members of Parliament, In October 2015, the President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, will make an official State Visit to Britain. We, the undersigned, are calling on the UK government to uphold human rights...

Dec 6 2017 10:56AM
Hold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a Universal Standard of Protecting Human Rights

To: EU Parliament, UK government, USA government, International Olympic Committee Over a hundred lawyers and activists in China have been detained, disappeared or questioned from 10 July. Seven of them have formally and criminally been...

Dec 4 2017 12:45PM
Scotland Activists Conference

Gabriel Calvert from the Dundee University Amnesty Group shares his experience of the Scotland Activists Conference The Amnesty International Scottish Activist Conference was an inspirational gathering of likeminded activists from...