Press releases in 2013

Spokesperson available on request Refugees trying to reach the EU via Greece from conflict-torn countries like Syria and Afghanistan are being unlawfully returned to Turkey by Greek coast and border...

The Nigerian government must act to prevent attacks on schools to protect Children's rights’s lives and their right to education, said Amnesty International after 30 people were reportedly killed in...

Amnesty International is calling for an urgent independent investigation into the reported deaths of at least 51 people outside the Republican Guard headquarters today. Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy...

Amnesty International is warning against a crackdown on supporters of Mohamed Morsi after documenting a new wave of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, raids on media and an incident in which a...

The new Pakistani government must not resume executions and should instead impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards abolition, Amnesty International said...

‘Our evidence raises questions as to whether the failure to protect all protesters … is the result of a deliberate policy by the security apparatus’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Amnesty experts in Cairo...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EVENT AT THE EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 5-6PM Award-winning author Annabel Pitcher discusses her book Ketchup Clouds Following the success of last year’s sell-out...

People abducted and sent back to torture and unfair trials in Central Asian countries ‘These renditions would not be possible without the complicity of public officials in the judicial and law...

‘The slick PR of the UAE is not enough to hide the fact that the trial was grossly unfair and that fundamental rights have been recklessly disregarded’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui The conviction earlier...

President Vladimir Putin’s new laws criminalising blasphemy and outlawing public activism by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals are an affront to freedom of