Press Releases

Turkish authorities must end the use of unnecessary and indiscriminate force against peaceful protesters Amnesty has reviewed footage of police beating protesters with batons and kicking them when...

PSNI recorded 1,777 racist incidents and 1,150 racist attacks last year Strong solidarity against racism at ‘Our Belfast: Free from Racism!’ community gathering at Belfast City Hall ‘ To anyone living...

New polling commissioned by Amnesty International UK, exposes the staggering levels of online misogyny that plague social media, driving young people, particularly women, away from spaces meant for...

The shortlist for the Amnesty Media Awards 2025 has been announced today (19 March). The awards, which celebrate outstanding human rights journalism, span 10 categories with pieces selected from over...

First anniversary of Hong Kong passing repressive Article 23 law Law a threat to activists in Hong Kong and those living in the UK Activists’ letter and protest call on Sir Keir Starmer to protect...

‘The world cannot stand by and allow Israel to continue inflicting staggering levels of death and suffering on Palestinians in Gaza’ – Agnes Callamard Responding to a series of Israeli strikes across...

Reacting to the freezing of bank accounts belonging to five Georgian NGOs that provide financial and legal assistance to detained protesters, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe...

Hundreds of dead bodies collected in under a month Alarming increase in rapes and other sexual violence in North and South Kivu On one night, over 130 people were abducted from Goma hospitals by M23...

Authorities threatened women, warning them against gathering for International Women’s Day Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and...

The 45 protesters were prosecuted after their 700th peaceful vigil for their forcibly disappeared loved ones was banned and violently dispersed in 2018 This was a “prosecution that should have never...