Press releases in 2009

Amnesty International calls on the Malaysian authorities to release five government critics arrested in the last two days, or charge them with recognisable criminal offences. This wave of arrests is...

By failing to protect the rights of migrants and asylum-seekers rescued at sea, the Italian and Maltese governments have breached their international obligations, Amnesty International said today....

Amnesty International warned today that a 30-year-old man is at imminent risk of being stoned to death in the city of Rasht, northern Iran after being convicted of "adultery while being married"...

Amnesty International today expressed dismay at the decision by Nigeria’s Imo State House of Assembly to pass a bill allowing the death penalty to be imposed on those convicted of kidnapping or whose...

Amnesty International has warned that the lives of nine activists working for two prominent human rights organisations in Guatemala are at risk after they received dozens of death threats by text...

Amnesty International has today launched a hard-hitting online film about torture, showing activists intervening to prevent a torture victim being further abused. The 90-second film, entitled “Defy...

Amnesty International called for the immediate and unconditional release or prompt and fair trial of 18 human rights and political activists detained yesterday, just two months after they were...

Speaking at a gathering of anti-death penalty protestors outside the Iranian embassy in London today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said: “The earth on Delara Darabi's grave has...

The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of two juvenile offenders due to be executed today (6 May), Amnesty International said today. The scheduled executions come just six days after Iran’s...

Northumberland’s award-winning Children's rights’s author David Almond is one of 14 well-known writers who has contributed to Amnesty International’s new anthology of Children's rights’s stories...