Press releases in 2016

‘Indefinite detention is expensive, ineffective, and extremely harmful to many of the people held’ - Naomi McAuliffe

In response to the Met Police’s decision to suspend its decision to pilot spit hoods Amnesty International UK’s arms programme director Oliver Sprague said:

Responding to a Metropolitan police announcement that its officers will be permitted to use spit hoods on suspects within weeks, Amnesty International’s UK Arms Programme Director Oliver Spra

Ruslan Sokolovsky has been arrested under ‘blasphemy law’ introduced after the Pussy Riot case

Amnesty International has welcomed a speech by Northern Ireland’s Lord Chief Justice calling for urgent action by the UK and Northern Ireland governments to ensure major investment to address

The G20 Hangzhou Summit Declaration calling for greater “burden-sharing” to address the refugee crisis reveals how little most G20 countries have done to share responsibility so far, sa

With widespread reports of the death of President Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan’s repressive regime is unlikely to change, said Amnesty International this afternoon.

Following reports of violence and that several anti-government demonstrators had been shot and injured in the capital of Gabon, Libreville, Amnesty International’s West and Central African Di

Former government minister Yvette Cooper MP will call for a more ambitious international response to the refugee crisis when she delivers a major speech in Belfast next month.

One year after the shocking image of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi’s drowned body caused an international outcry, world leaders are shamefully failing to respond effectively to the global refugee cri