Press releases in 2013

A decision by a court in Japan to deny a retrial to an 87-year-old man on death row is a “travesty of justice”, Amnesty International said today.

Diplomats from Commonwealth countries meeting in London today must push Sri Lanka to end its continuing crackdown on human rights defenders, Amnesty International said.

Amnesty International has denounced Egypt’s hardline policy of unlawfully detaining and forcibly returning hundreds of refugees who have fled the armed conflict in Syria.

A British journalist, who has investigated the secret use of torture in Northern Ireland, has called for the UK authorities to reveal the truth about past abuses as part of a wider process to “deal with the past”…

Iran must stop the execution of man who was found alive at a morgue a day after being hanged, Amnesty International urged today, after the authorities said the prisoner would be hanged for a second time once his…

Amnesty International has warned of “paralysis” in the human rights movement in Russia after a key NGO in the city of Ryazan today lost a lawsuit triggered by the repressive 'foreign agents law'.

Amnesty is calling for the Algerian authorities to release a blogger held for posting photos and caricatures of president and the prime minister to Facebook and for supposedly “praising terrorism”.

The arrest and detention of more than 1,200 immigrants in a sweep operation at a Moscow market yesterday is just the latest example of disproportionate and discriminatory policing in Russia, Amnesty International…

Amnesty is calling for the Algerian authorities to release a blogger held for posting photos and caricatures of president and the prime minister to Facebook and for supposedly “praising terrorism”.

Amnesty International expressed profound disappointment at a suspension of the police investigation into the notorious Claudy bombings as “just the latest betrayal the Claudy families have faced"...