Press releases in 2010

Burma’s government must halt its repression of ethnic minority activists before forthcoming national and local elections, Amnesty International warned in a major report released today. The 58-page...

Amnesty International has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil the commitments made in his acceptance speech by setting up an independent commission of inquiry into all suspected...

The Iranian government’s view of the state of human rights in the country is severely distorted, Amnesty International said today in an analysis paper prepared ahead of a review of Iran by the United...

The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, has committed to lifting all financial barriers to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning, as part of a strategy to fight maternal...

Amnesty International has called on the Uzbekistani authorities to quash the conviction for "slander and insult" of a prominent photographer and documentary filmmaker who has been recording people's...

Responding to today’s IPCC ruling on police use of Taser against a man in Nottingham, Amnesty International UK Arms Programme Director, Oliver Sprague said: “The IPCC’s decision that the police...

The Chinese authorities must immediately release Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist whose appeal against an 11-year prison sentence was rejected by a Beijing court, Amnesty International said today...

The comment below is by Amnesty International's interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone There has been a lot of controversy in the media surrounding Amnesty International’s work with Moazzam Begg...

Amnesty International today called on President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai to fulfil their promise to reform state institutions, in a bid to end human rights violations that have continued...

Amnesty International today reacted to a statement from Vedanta Resources, which was distributed by a marketing agency in Delhi yesterday, regarding Amnesty’s 9 February report “Don’t Mine Us Out of...