Press releases in 2014

With just over two weeks to go until entries for Amnesty’s Youth Awards close, Billy Bragg and Esperanza Spalding have called on 7-21 year-olds to enter the Amnesty’s Youth Awards.

The abduction and torture of Ukrainian opposition activist Dmitrii Bulatov is a barbaric act which must be investigated immediately, Amnesty International said today.

EU has so far offered to help less than 1% of Syrian refugees

‘This move is long overdue but of course it’s never too late to do the right thing’ - Kate Allen

Amnesty International has expressed concern at delays by a religious order and other bodies in submitting evidence to Northern Ireland’s Historic Institutional Abuse Inquiry into child abuse in residential care…

‘For police officers to use torture "for fun" is despicable. These are abhorrent acts’ - Hazel Galang-Folli

With one week to go until the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Amnesty International UK’s director Kate Allen will visit Moscow to deliver a petition of hundreds of thousands of signatures

Christian and Muslim civilians in Baoro and Bossemptle in north-west Central African Republic are in imminent danger of attack because of the very strong presence of anti-balaka militias in towns where…