Press releases in 2010

Amnesty International today (9 July) called for the immediate and unconditional release of two human rights defenders facing trial in Angola on charges linked to an attack on the Togolese football...

Amnesty International is calling on the Zimbabwean government to release an activist who is being detained after he exposed human rights violations in the country’s Marange diamond fields. Farai...

In response to the announcement regarding gay asylum seekers’ right to remain, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director, said: “Around the globe lesbians, gay men, bisexual and transgender...

Amnesty International has called on the Peruvian government to revoke its decision to expel a British catholic activist, who received an MBE from the Queen for his work. He has spent the past ten...

Amnesty International will today join with victims and survivors of institutional child abuse in order to hand over a letter to Northern Ireland's First Minister and Deputy First Minister, calling for...

Amnesty International calls on the Cuban government to immediately free all prisoners of conscience, after authorities yesterday said 52 prisoners will be released. Five of the 52 detainees, whose...

Amnesty International calls on the UK government to ensure that its inquiry into UK complicity in torture and other human rights violations of those detained abroad since 11 September 2001 is thorough...

Responding to the announcement by the UK Prime Minister David Cameron, confirming that the UK government will hold an inquiry into allegations of UK complicity in torture and other human rights abuses...

Amnesty International reiterated its call on Israel to completely lift its blockade of the Gaza Strip as Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu meets US President Barack Obama in Washington. The two leaders...

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