Press releases in 2015

Teenager arrested and tortured for wearing anti-torture t-shirt is part of crackdown as country reverts to full ‘police state’ behaviour

‘The killing of Public Prosecutor Hisham Barakat was a despicable, cowardly and cold-blooded act of murder’ - Said Boumedouha

Risk of wrongfully-convicted person being executed remains

‘This is a joyous day’ - Steven W Hawkins

Eight hundred years since Magna Carta, a commemorative garden will mark the historic anniversary at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, at a time when modern-day human rights protections are

Azerbaijan must immediately and unconditionally release all government critics unfairly imprisoned if the European Games are to leave a positive legacy, Amnesty International said today ahead of th

‘There are concrete actions the UN can and should take to reduce and deter violations against civilians’ - Philip Luther

‘Same sex couples in every part of the UK should have an equal right to marry the person they love’ - Gráinne Teggart

‘To take a man’s life in this way is the politics of the gutter’ - Hiroka Shoji

Amnesty International has said Cardinal Seán Brady was part of a conspiracy of silence on clerical child abuse which ran from top to bottom in the Catholic Church in Ireland.