Press releases in 2009

“If we didn’t give money then they beat us. They used our money to send us back to Afghanistan.” – Afghan asylum-seeker. People arriving at Turkey’s borders in search of asylum are putting their lives...

Supporters of British woman Marnie Pearce, a British woman currently jailed on ‘adultery’ charges in Dubai, will hand in a petition at the United Arab Emirates embassy at 1.30pm on Thursday 23 April...

UTU leader available for interview An education pack developed by Amnesty International in partnership with the Ulster Teachers’ Union (UTU) and the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) is to...

US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi is a pawn in the ongoing political developments between Iran and the USA and should be considered a prisoner of conscience, Amnesty International said today as it...

Amnesty International is calling on the Shangdong authorities to stop the continuing harassment of Yuan Weijing, the wife of imprisoned legal activist Chen Guangcheng, who has been under virtual house...

“If we didn’t give money then they beat us. They used our money to send us back to Afghanistan.” – Afghan asylum-seeker. People arriving at Turkey’s borders in search of asylum are putting their lives...

An Amnesty International fact-finding mission to Fiji has uncovered a rapidly deteriorating human rights situation and a civilian population living in fear as a result of draconian measures...

As Zimbabwe prepares to commemorate its Independence Day tomorrow, Amnesty International warned that continuing human rights abuses by elements within the government risk undermining the inclusive...

Amnesty International today responded to news that the US Department of Justice has released memos that provided the legal framework for the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation...

Amnesty International today (17 April) called on the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to declare an immediate humanitarian truce so an estimated 100,000...