Press releases in 2015

Today’s abrupt halt of the US military court hearing of five alleged plotters of the 11 September 2001 attacks is just the latest in a string of serious incidents that have marked the inheren

“It’s high time that the British government stopped allowing its overseas territory to be used as a secret haven for hiding illicit activity” – Meghna Abraham

Amnesty International UK is hosting an innovative poetry event at its east London headquarters to highlight the plight of a poet jailed for 15 years in the Gulf state of Qatar.

‘This is a historic victory in the age-old battle for the right to privacy and free expression’ - Rachel Logan

The Spanish authorities have shown a deplorable disregard for human life by failing to properly investigate the drowning of 14 migrants off the co

‘The IS’s gruesome tactics must not be allowed to fuel a bloody cycle of reprisal executions’ - Philp Luther

A new report published by Amnesty today (Wednesday 4 February) exposes the horrors faced by Syrian refugees and the continuing failure of the UK government to take its fair share of those people in

‘Serbia and Croatia must urgently act to provide justice for those who have been ignored for so long’ - John Dalhuisen