Press releases in 2009

Saudi Arabia must not close its borders to civilians fleeing the conflict raging in Yemen’s Sa’da region, Amnesty International has said in a letter addressed to the Minister of Interior. The warning...

Amnesty International today raised questions about the level of importance that the PSNI placed on human rights in their training of Libyan police. Media reports indicate that the PSNI and members of...

Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mexican prisoner of conscience Jacinta Francisco Marcial, who was held in prison for three years after being falsely accused of kidnapping six federal...

Spain has one of the strictest detention regimes in Europe and is in breach of international human rights law, said Amnesty International today (15 September) in a new report. The report, Out of the...

Report fits with Amnesty finding of war crimes on both sides All relevant UN bodies must act promptly and in coordination to implement the recommendations of the UN-mandated Goldstone report on...

Change could lead to a ban on abortion in all circumstances Amnesty International has warned that proposed changes to the Constitution of the Dominican Republic will put Women's rights's rightss...

Gay rights activists attacked with impunity; Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights campaigners called “witches” and threatened with lynching Human rights defenders are...

Hunger strikes in Iraq, London and elsewhere as concerns for residents mount Amnesty International has written to the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki expressing its deep concern about killings and...

* World’s longest-serving death row prisoner among those driven into mental illness by extreme prison regime * Prisoners only find out on the morning that execution is to take place that day * ‘There...

Victims of rape and other torture by Iranian security forces are facing renewed risk after documents detailing abuses against them were confiscated, said Irene Khan, Amnesty International’s Secretary...