Press releases in 2010

On 2 February, in a letter to the Czech Minister of Education, Youth and Sports, Miroslava Kopicová, Amnesty International, the European Roma Rights Centre and the Open Society Justice Initiative...

Amnesty International has launched a campaign for 11 students jailed in Morocco after they protested for better conditions and greater freedom of speech at their university. The 11 students - Zohra...

Israel’s latest response to the UN on its investigations into alleged violations of international law by its forces in Gaza a year ago is totally inadequate, Amnesty International has said. The...

Responding to news that Strathclyde Police officials will meet on Thursday 4 February to discuss the supply of Taser weapons to more police officers, Amnesty International said that it was "dismayed"...

The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold...

Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to reveal the whereabouts of two music journalists, Behrang Tonekaboni and Kayvan Farzin and the reason why they have been detained. Both...

On Friday 26th February, the winning play of iceandfire and Amnesty International’s 2008 Protect the Human playwriting competition, ‘After the Accident’ by Oxford-based Julian Armitstead will be aired...

Amnesty International UK today issued a call for the UK’s Control Orders regime to be scrapped, as Lord Carlile published his review into Control Orders and reports emerged of the soaring cost of...

New Assembly Government Strategy expected Drastic improvements needed say campaigners Campaigners today (1st Feb) say that Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Wales have one...