Press releases in 2010

Amnesty International today (12 August) announced the first two shortlisted entries for its Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Fringe, which will be given to an outstanding play carrying a...

Trial was a ‘parody’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of seven members of Iran's Baha’i religious minority to 20 years in jail on a series of politically...

Comedian Rob Rouse and critic Edd McCracken went head to head for the cameras today (11 August) ahead of Sunday’s comedians vs critics football match at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. After some...

The Taleban and other insurgent groups should be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes, Amnesty International said today, following the release of a United Nations report showing a rise in...

Amnesty International has condemned the Mexican authorities’ decision to pursue charges against human rights defender Raúl Hernández for a murder he did not commit, after a state prosecutor today...

Amnesty International today asked comedians and audiences at the Edinburgh Festival to get behind a new campaign for a comedian jailed for 35 years for criticising the government. Zarganar, aged 49...

Amnesty International today strongly condemned attacks on politicians and journalists in the run up to the presidential elections on this coming Monday, August 9. The murder of a journalist and an...

Responding to a new televised appeal to David Cameron made by Danny Fitzsimons, the British security contractor detained in Iraq and awaiting trial for murder, Amnesty International UK Campaigns...

The Georgian authorities must do more than the bare minimum to provide adequate housing, employment and access to health care to those displaced in conflicts in the 1990s and the war with Russia in...

Amnesty International today urged the Belgrade authorities to halt plans to destroy a Roma settlement amid fears that an eviction could be imminent. At least 70 families living in an informal...