Press releases in 2014

Legal policies which allow MI5, MI6 and GCHQ to access confidential privileged communications between lawyers and clients were disclosed in court today.

‘The US government must do far more to end human rights violations at Guantánamo’ - Zeke Johnson

The deaths of two children killed by shelling while they played football on a school field in eastern Ukraine earlier today must be immediately, fully and impartially investigated, Amnesty Internat

The convictions yesterday of three men following a brutal racist attack on a Roma woman and her nephew is a “first step towards justice”, said Amnesty International and Greek Helsinki M

‘The onus is on Israeli officials to explain why they chose to deliberately flatten entire homes full of civilians’ - Philip Luther

“A mob appears to have played judge, jury and executioner” David Griffiths, Amnesty International

‘It’s an outrage that a young woman is being locked up simply for peacefully having her say about how women are discriminated against in Iran’

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