Press releases in 2013

Albert Woodfox’s case has raised serious human rights concerns, says Amnesty Amnesty International is urging the Attorney General of the US State of Louisiana not to appeal against a federal court...

Media reports and cell phone footage apparently showing South African police tying a Mozambican man to the back of a police vehicle and dragging him down the road are “shocking”, Amnesty International...

A Moroccan editor is facing imprisonment on charges of disseminating false information after he ran a story alleging that a senior government official spent almost £800 of public money on a champagne...

On Saturday 2 March at 3.30pm, up to 100 young people from across the UK will take part in a ‘die-in’ in Shoreditch, east London to illustrate the deadly impact of the poorly regulated Arms. They will...

Detainees tortured with electricity and molten plastic to extract confessions 28 people held in a four-metre squared cell with no sanitation for 49 days [Footage and report available upon request]...

Amnesty International has urged the Nigerian authorities to immediately stop the forced eviction of hundreds of residents in the region as hundreds of homes are being demolished in the Oke Ilu-Eri...

Weeks before crucial talks begin at the United Nations to negotiate an international Arms treaty, Amnesty International has today released a new short film highlighting the need to control the global...

Paul Howell would be first Florida death row inmate to be executed without a federal judicial review The US state of Florida should halt the execution of a man denied a federal review of his appeal...

Amnesty International today called upon the Honduran authorities to urgently investigate the killing of Jose Trejo just five months after his brother, a prominent human rights lawyer, was also...

‘NGOs in Egypt already face staggering restrictions, but this instruction is a new low’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui A move by the Egyptian authorities to prohibit Egyptian NGOs’ contact with foreign...