Press releases in 2015

Death row prisoners in Indonesia are routinely denied access to lawyers and are coerced into “confessions” through severe beatings, while foreign nationals facing the death penalty have

Reports have emerged of a second execution of a juvenile offender in Iran in just a few days, Amnesty International said toda

All unlawful killings and deliberate attacks on civilians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) since the start of October must be effectively investigated and perpetrators broug

Amnesty International has uncovered evidence of a wave of forced displacement and mass house demolitions - amounting to war crimes - in northern Syria being carried out by the Autonomous Administra

In support of Amnesty International’s campaign against disappearances in Mexico, world-renowned singer and songwriter Sting met this weekend with relatives of some of the thousands who have g

Letter from jail details abuse ahead of her ‘shaking hands with lawyer’ trial

Burma has been harassing and locking up scores of peaceful activists as part of an intensifying and far-reaching crackdown ahead of elections on 8 November, Amnesty International said today as it l

Same-sex marriage is coming to Northern Ireland.

The Hungarian government has invested three times as much in razor-wire fencing and border controls as it spends annually on receiving asylum-seekers, Amnesty International has revealed in a new re