Press releases in 2016

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee’s story imagines horror of a stoning

In response to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s decision this afternoon to commute all death sentences to life imprisonment, Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International’s Regional Director

Activists will carry ‘Free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’ and ‘Free Kamal Foroughi’ placards

The French and British authorities must make plans to ensure that all those living in the Calais re

200 bears to be piled at gates of Downing Street to symbolise dead children of Aleppo

South Africa’s Parliament must convene urgently to reconsider the government’s decision to withdraw from the Rome Statute, the founding instrument of the International Criminal Court (I

‘Northern Ireland has a proud record on refugees. But the world can - and must - do more’ - Yvette Cooper MP

Heavy bombing and use of cluster munitions point to clear strategy to ‘to make life unbearable for civilians’ in eastern Aleppo

The brutal murders of two land rights campaigners in Honduras last night are the latest in a seemingly unstoppable wave of deadly attacks turning Honduras into a no-go zone for human rights activis

Heavy-handed measures by the Ethiopian government will only escalate a deepening crisis that has claimed the lives of more than 800 protesters since protests began in November 2015, said Amnesty In