Press releases in 2013

Guantánamo Bay detainee Mustafa al-Hawsawi can provide new evidence, claims NGO With a new victim claiming he was held in a secret CIA detention centre in Lithuania, Amnesty International is urging...

Human rights can provide the key to unlocking long-running disputes on flags, parading and dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Programme Director...

Forced evictions in France have reached record proportions, Amnesty International revealed in a new report published today. The findings come despite promises made last year by the new French...

At least 73 people executed in Iraq so far this year Amnesty International has learnt that the Iraqi authorities executed 13 men last Sunday (22 September) despite grave concerns over the safety of...

‘We are concerned this could be yet another punishment for demanding … her own rights’ - Sergei Nikitin

‘There’s very little question that unarmed Greenpeace activists are not pirates’ - John Dalhuisen Any piracy charges against activists on the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise would be manifestly...

World’s largest arms dealer has ‘mixed record’ on weapons sales Following reports that US Secretary of State John Kerry will sign the international Arms Treaty tomorrow morning on the side-lines of...

The Somali-based Islamist armed group al-Shabab’s blatant disregard for life in its attack on a Nairobi shopping centre on Saturday is a despicable affront to basic human rights, Amnesty International...

Member states of the United Nations General Assembly must demand that Sudan’s President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC), where he faces charges of...

Amnesty International has accused the European Union and its member states of failing to tackle homophobic and transphobic hate crimes and to protect the continent’s citizens from discrimination...