Press releases in 2010

Call for lifting of blockade one year on from end of Operation ‘Cast Lead’ One year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its “suffocating”...

Amnesty International has expressed serious concern for the fate of a Yemeni newspaper editor and his two sons following their recent detention in the Gulf state. Hisham Bashraheel, the 66-year-old...

Czech School system still condemns Roma kids to education for Children's rights with mental disabilities despite court ruling A new Amnesty International report on the Czech Republic (13 January)...

Reacting to media reports today that Google is to stop censoring Internet search results for users of its Google.cn service in China, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Amnesty has...

The UK government must scrap abusive, discriminatory and unlawful powers that allow the police to stop and search without reasonable suspicion, Amnesty International said today after the European...

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who were beaten and arrested during a peaceful vigil in Tehran...

On the eighth anniversary of the first transfers to Guantánamo, leading human rights organisations have today (11 January) urged more European countries to accept detainees held at the US detention...

Celebrities and activists caution one year to prevent war in Sudan LONDON: Thousands of activists are expected to gather at events in 15 countries – including the UK – to call on world leaders to take...

The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the...

Amnesty International is marking the eighth “anniversary” of US detentions at Guantánamo Bay (11 January) with the hand-in of a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown from the daughter of Shaker Aamer...