Press releases in 2014

The authorities in Burkina Faso must rein in the security forces that have used excessive force to crack down on peaceful anti-government protests, Amnesty International said today.

Spoof sales agents showing off thumbscrews and electro-shock handcuffs outside Liverpool Street Station

Country hit by wave of door-to-door ‘manhunts’ and abductions - abductees describe torture at hands of masked captors

‘British officials have got their paw prints all over this case’ - Kate Allen

The death sentence handed down today for a leading opposition figure in Bangladesh for war crimes will not bring justice to the millions of victims of the independence war, Amnesty International sa

‘Convicting Nabeel Rajab would be a terrible injustice’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui

Women can face 50 year jail term for suffering a miscarriage in El Salvador warn Amnesty

‘Qatar’s human rights record has been under the spotlight like never before and it hasn’t been a pretty sight’ - Allan Hogarth

“When the hour came, the UK turned its back on despairing people and left them to drown.”