Press releases in 2008

Amnesty International has today (24 June) accused European governments, including Ireland and the UK, of complicity and inaction over US-led rendition and secret detention, as it published a new...

In this, the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on World Refugee Day, Amnesty International calls on states to reaffirm everyone’s right to seek and to enjoy...

Amnesty International has this evening revealed that 12 bodies have been found in various areas of Zimbabwe. Most of the victims appear to have been tortured to death by their abductors. They were...

Cases rebut Burma’s promise to give medical aid to prisoners On the day that the Burmese Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrates her 63rd birthday, Amnesty International called on the country’s...

Representatives from Amnesty International and the National Federation of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s Institutes - Wales will today (18 June) hand over a petition at...

Bydd cynrychiolwyr Amnest Rhyngwladol a Ffederasiwn Cenedlaethol Sefydliad y Merched Cymru heddiw (18 Mehefin) yn cyflwyno deiseb yn y Senedd i'r Prif Weinidog yn galw am well gwasanaethau ar gyfer y...

As the Olympic torch relay travels to Lhasa in Tibet, Amnesty International today urged the Chinese government to provide information about the over 1,000 people detained during the protests in March...

Ahead of US President George Bush's visit to Northern Ireland (16 June), Amnesty International has written to Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness calling on them to raise the issues of Guantánamo Bay...

At risk 42-year-old recognised by Alan Johnston at awards ceremony tonight ‘The authorities in Yemen are trying to silence me’ - Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani Amnesty International has tonight made a human...

The winners of the 17th Amnesty International UK Media Awards were announced this evening. The awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant...