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Press releases in 2016

Nigeria: Major General implicated in mass murder reinstated to army

Major General in command of operations where army executed 640 detainees President Buhari yet to fulfil June 2014 promise to investigate Amnesty findings

Refugees: UK must stop 'shirking responsibility' and admit more refugees with family
China: three people jailed for publishing books on democracy

Activists known as ‘The Three Gentlemen of Guangzhou’ were accused of ‘picking quarrels and provoking troubles’

Turkey: Failure to respond to desperate pleas of seriously injured

More than 20 residents sheltering in basement for six days Building a few hundred metres from medical centre

Ivory Coast: Gbagbo trial offers glimmer of hope for victims
Egypt: two-year prison sentence for poet and four other activists

‘Ahmed Said and the other activists should never have been on trial in the first place’ - Said Boumedouha

Northern Ireland: Amnesty response to Justice Minister’s appeal of High Court ruling on abortion

Amnesty International has reiterated its commitment to resist any attempt to overturn the decision of the Belfast High Court that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach the human rights of w

Egypt: two-year detention without trial of 'anti-torture' t-shirt teenager condemned

Mahmoud Hussein, arrested aged 18, one of more than 700 people held for two years without charge

Iran: dozens of juvenile offenders on death row - new report

Girls as young as nine and boys as young as 15 to be sentenced to death in Iran

Northern Ireland: Amnesty will resist attempt to overturn High Court ruling on abortion

Amnesty International has pledged to resist any attempt to overturn the decision of the Belfast High Court that Northern Ireland’s abortion laws breach the human rights of women and girls in