Press releases in 2016

Report documents five cases where people were beaten to death in custody

Vietnam, Chechnya, Bosnia, Iraq, Syria all feature in new exhibition as part of Amnesty’s 'I Welcome' campaign and to mark Magnum’s 70th anniversary

Ahead of a visit to China this week by Northern Ireland’s First Minister, Arlene Foster, Amnesty International has called on her to raise concerns about human rights abuses in China - including the country’s…

‘This must only be the beginning of an improved process for projects that affect indigenous populations’ - Eric Ferrero

‘If confirmed, General Mattis would wield tremendous power, including the ability to order torture and flood Guantanamo with new detainees held without charge’ -

‘It is becoming clearer every day that the UN Security Council has failed the Syrian people’ - Sherine Tadros

‘As the nation that founded the Al Jazeera media network … Qatar should be at the forefront of those championing freedom of the press’ - James Lynch

A comprehensive redress scheme for victims of historical child abuse must be part of the new Northern Ireland Programme for Government, child abuse survivors have told Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and…

Relatives of one man only learnt of his death by shooting when they made routine prison visit

Unilever, Nestlé, Kellogg’s, Colgate-Palmolive, Procter & Gamble among household names contributing to labour abuse