Press releases in 2015

Torture of Adrián Vázquez part of country’s so-called ‘war on drugs’

Amnesty International has welcomed plans announced today by Northern Ireland's Department of Justice to reform abortion law in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities and has called for support for

Ahead of the latest leaders’ election debate from Central Hall, Westminster

Amnesty International today launched a new campaign calling on the leaders of all political parties to “do the human right thing” and protect the Human Rights Act.

The UK Government must investigate the British-Australian mining company Rio Tinto over a possible breach of EU economic sanctions on Burma, Amnesty International said ahead of the company’s

UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond praised country earlier this year

The ongoing negligence by European governments of the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean has contributed to a more than 50-fold increase in migrant and refugee deaths since the beginning of 2

One detainee under interrogation was told ‘everyone who is brought here is found guilty’

Yevgeniy Vitishko faces more time in remote prison colony because of absurd ‘violations’ of prison rules