Press releases in 2012

Europe’s police services received a sharp wake-up call this morning thanks to a new hard-hitting briefing from Amnesty International on the policing of austerity protests across the continent. The...

Amnesty International today called on the Serbian government to introduce new legislation to stop the horrors of the forced eviction of the Roma community of Belvil being replicated across the nation...

New report heavily critical of secret justice plans ahead of debate on controversial bill ‘It’s a secret justice system straight from the pages of a Kafka novel’ - Alice Wyss The government’s plans...

The Jordanian authorities must end their crackdown against pro-reform activists and allow them freely to express their views, Amnesty International has said today. Twenty detainees - all members of...

The decision by Argentina’s Supreme Court to allow a rape survivor to have her pregnancy terminated is a step forward for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights in the...

The Mexican authorities must take decisive action to tackle the systemic and widespread use of torture and ill-treatment documented across the country, which dramatically increased under the...

A wave of violent forced evictions, which has led to a number of deaths, is spreading across China as local authorities seek to offset huge debts by seizing and then selling off land in suspect deals...

A general amnesty decree by Egypt’s President Morsi pardoning those detained or tried for taking part in protests since the January 2011 uprising is welcome news , Amnesty International said, but...

The decision by a Moscow court to give Ekaterina Samutsevich a suspended sentence and release her while upholding jail sentences against Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is only a half...

Amnesty International has denounced the shooting of a 14-year girl in Pakistan’s Swat valley as a “shocking act of violence”, as the Taleban claimed responsibility for the attack. Gunmen opened fire...