Press releases in 2015

‘The fight against Boko Haram should not serve as a pretext for enforced disappearances’ - Illaria Allegrozzi

Russian forces appear to have used vacuum bombs and illegal cluster munitions Hospitals and residential areas hit

The three-year suspended prison sentence handed down against human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang today is a deliberate attempt by the Chinese authorities to shackle a champion of freedom of expression,

‘Many people are being targeted solely on the basis of their religious practices or vague suspicions’ - Gauri van Gulik

Security forces systematically killed dozens of people on the single bloodiest day of Burundi’s escalating crisis, Amnesty International has found.

Most are from the conflict-affected Dafur region

Yesterday’s banning of the Communist Party in Ukraine is a flagrant violation of freedom of expression and association and should be immediately overturned, said Amnesty International.

Philippe Sands QC and others submit damning legal opinion commissioned by Amnesty and Saferworld