Press releases in 2012

Waleed Abu al-Khair stopped from travelling to New York A travel ban on a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights defender imposed just before he planned to attend a democracy course in the United States...

Report delivers message to executing countries - 'You are out of step with the rest of the world on this issue’ (Salil Shetty) Countries that carried out executions in 2011 did so at an alarming rate...

The execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana must be halted and an official moratorium on capital punishment established in India, Amnesty International said today in an open letter to the country’

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlist for the 2012 Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year. This year’s competition attracted over 3,000 participants from 150 different schools from...

The Israeli authorities should immediately release a Palestinian detainee or charge her with a recognisable criminal offence and promptly try her, Amnesty International said amid fears that the woman...

Amnesty has names of over 7,200 people now reported killed Any UN mission to supervise an end to armed violence in Syria must include as part of its work the monitoring and reporting of human rights...

Leaders of the military coup against President Amadou Toumani Touré’s Malian government must release the prime minister and other politicians from custody and take steps to protect human rights...

Amnesty International is today giving evidence on human trafficking to the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee. In written evidence submitted ahead of the session , Amnesty has drawn...

‘The Belarusian authorities must release the bodies to the families’ - John Dalhuisen The execution of two men convicted of carrying out a deadly metro bombing last year in Minsk has been condemned by...

The government of Bosnia and Herzegovina must honour its 2010 commitment to ensure justice, truth and reparation for hundreds of survivors of wartime sexual violence, Amnesty International demanded in...