Press releases in 2013

The sudden execution of three death row inmates is an ominous move from Japan’s new Liberal Democratic government, Amnesty International said today. The executions are the first since the...

Tensions are spiralling in South Sudan’s western Bahr El Ghazal state following a series of arrests by the state authorities and a security clampdown that has left 24 dead and more than 60 injured...

‘New laws introduced since the Pussy Riot protest have given the authorities sweeping powers to clamp down on NGOs’ - John Dalhuisen A year after the punk band Pussy Riot performed a protest song in...

China, the USA, EU states and other arms-exporting countries must ensure that any deals brokered at an international arms fair in Abu Dhabi this week do not result in weapons reaching countries where...

Rap singer Mouad Belghouat one of dozens currently detained Two years after thousands of people took to the streets of Rabat, Casablanca and other cities in Morocco calling for reform, repression of...

Illegal demolitions of Palestinian homes by Israel will come under the spotlight in Belfast next week at an Amnesty International public meeting. Thousands of Palestinian families have been displaced...

Amnesty International demanded the Austrian government ditch its homophobic adoption laws, following a ruling from the European Court of Human Rights earlier today. The Court ruled that the Austrian...

Amnesty International has written to Northern Ireland's First and Deputy First Ministers to raise allegations of abuse suffered in Magdalene Laundry institutions within the jurisdiction. Later today...

The deaths of two men in police custody in the Bahamas last weekend highlight the urgent need for greater accountability for police abuses, Amnesty International said today. Jamie Smith, 33, and Aaron...

Take action for WOZA Read our blog: Ten years of the power of love for WOZA and Zimbabwe /li> Eight members of Zimbabwean women’s social justice movement, Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), were arrested...