Press releases in 2007

Amnesty International said that today's application by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue summonses to two people suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes in...

Equipment used for torture – including wall handcuffs and spiked batons known as ‘sting sticks’ – could still be traded out of the EU, said Amnesty International today as a new report condemned new EU...

Responding to today’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) ruling regarding Abu Qatada, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “Deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan will put...

Celebration event hosted by special guest Lynda Baron with Ali Hili of Iraq Gays On 27 February Amnesty International will be celebrating ten years since the publication of the ground-breaking book...

In an article in this week’s New Statesman, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams adds his voice to an Amnesty International appeal for Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momessori, a clergyman...

At least 17 people executed so far in 2007 - prisoner swallows nails in protest at death sentence Amnesty International is extremely concerned at an alarming upsurge in executions in Saudi Arabia...

Amnesty International today (22 February) condemned the four-year sentence handed down by an Egyptian court against blogger Karim Amer, and called for his immediate and unconditional release. Amnesty...

The UK is failing to take its share of responsibility for the refugee crisis facing Iraq said Amnesty International today, ahead of the government’s quarterly asylum statistics. While the USA has...

Fears raised after reprieve for Kim Jong-il’s birthday expires Amnesty International is extremely concerned that two border guards in North Korea are at immediate risk of execution for helping North...

Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, Eaves & UNICEF UK As a powerful new photographic exhibition revealing the reality of trafficking in the UK opens in St Paul’s Cathedral (21...