Press releases in 2012

Join Global Movement to Abolish Capital Punishment. South Sudan should join the great majority of United Nations members that have abolished the death penalty in law or practice by placing a...

Responding to news of the Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to promote UK arms sales, Amnesty International UK’s Head of Policy and...

Dozens of men and boys from Maiduguri in northern Nigeria have been reportedly shot by security forces as Amnesty International published a report condemning human rights violations by the security...

The 16-year-old son of Bassem Tamimi, a detained Palestinian rights activist in the occupied West Bank, was himself arrested by Israeli soldiers today during the regular weekly protest against the...

Round-ups of dissidents, “black jails” used, heightened internet restrictions to “seal the network” The Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown against dissidents ahead of the imminent...

The acquittal of Greek journalist Costas Vaxevanis is a victory for freedom of expression, Amnesty International said today. Marek Marczyński, Europe and Central Asia Deputy Programme Director at...

New video evidence emerged on Thursday which appears to show an armed group in Syria’s Idlib province carrying out a mass summary killing of men in their custody. In the footage – which is reported to...

Round-ups of dissidents, “black jails” used, heightened internet restrictions to “seal the network” The Chinese authorities are intensifying a crackdown against dissidents ahead of the imminent...

The Iranian authorities must protect all detainees and prisoners from harassment and degrading treatment, said Amnesty International, after nine female political prisoners, including prisoners of...

Amnesty International is calling on the authorities in Kuwait to drop charges against Musallam al-Barrak, a former Kuwaiti parliamentarian who faces prosecution for peacefully exercising his right to...