Press releases in 2012

Urgent steps are needed if Afghanistan is to avoid a repeat of the deaths among Children's rights and adults in the country’s displacement camps that occurred during last year’s bitterly cold winter...

Appeals not as yet exhausted Execution warrant signed after Edo State Governor declared inmates are “becoming unmanageable” Last known execution in Nigeria in 2006 Two prisoners on death row in Benin...

Amnesty International UK launched a new action today calling on Pakistan’s Prime Minister to protect people who speak out for human rights in Pakistan like Malala Yousufzai. Gunmen opened fire on 14...

A year on from the capture and killing of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, Amnesty International is calling on the Libyan authorities to hand over immediately the former ruler’s military intelligence...

Speaking in response to the reports that a police officer fired a Taser at a blind man after the officer mistook the man’s walking stick for a samurai sword, Amnesty International UK Arms Programme...

"Criticism, insult or mockery does not interfere with the individual believer’s freedom of religion, however offensive they may find it” - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui A man facing trial for publishing the...

Warning coincides with veiled threat to UK over parliamentary investigation The Saudi Arabian authorities must withdraw their threat to deal “firmly” with people taking part in demonstrations and...

Amnesty International UK and the National Union of Students today revealed an amazing new top prize for their annual Student Human Rights Reporter of the Year award – a fellowship with the US-based...

Amnesty International is delighted to announce the release of The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012 available on DVD and Blu-Ray from 3 December. Described in the Independent as “a comedy night with a...

*Shop worker Saeed Sedeghi among men whose fate is now unknown *Iran believed to have executed at least 344 people since start of year The fate and whereabouts of 11 men in Iran who were due to be put...