Press releases in 2009

Amnesty International has announced that one of the world’s leading intellectuals, Professor Noam Chomsky, will come to Belfast on 30 October to give the organisation’s annual lecture at the Ulster...

* Journalists from 13 Afghan provinces report government intimidation Ahead of the Afghan presidential elections (20 August), journalists from 13 provinces in Afghanistan have told Amnesty...

On the eve of the scheduled trial of Tan Zuoren on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to drop the politically-motivated prosecution...

‘It is critically important … that the authorities fully investigate these crimes’ Amnesty International called for an end to impunity for the murder of human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers...

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan as...

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi’s immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International campaigners in Northern Ireland as "a...

Equivalent of Bournemouth’s population live, eat and sleep in area size of Wembley Stadium Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent civilians - including an...

Responding to reports that a British employee of a security company working in Iraq may face a death sentence, Amnesty International UK Media Director Mike Blakemore said: “It’s right that private...

Amnesty International UK today responded to the report of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC), echoing its concerns regarding allegations of UK complicity in torture and rendition and calling for a...

‘Alarming spike’ in numbers represents ‘significant increase’, says Amnesty The eight weeks between the presidential election on 12 June and the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term...