Press releases in 2017

‘The Uzbek authorities have designed a system where surveillance and the expectation of surveillance is not the exception, but the norm’ - Joshua Franco The Uzbekistani government is conducting...

Following today’s victory in the European Court of Human Rights by a group of Bangladeshi strawberry pickers shot by employers for demanding unpaid wages, Amnesty International's Deputy Europe...

As US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Turkey to meet with President Erdoğan and others in Ankara today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia, Gauri van Gulik...

After reports that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to lift human rights conditions on the multi-billion-dollar sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain despite Bahrain’s record of oppression...

Following a preliminary injunction against the controversial Muslim ban in the US state of Hawaii late yesterday, Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said: “The courts...

Amnesty International and the Student Action for Refugees (STAR) will be linking the Home Office and the Department for Education with a giant paper chain on Thursday 30 March and presenting a 31,000...

Amnesty International and the Student Action for Refugees (STAR) will be linking the Home Office and the Department for Education with a giant paper chain on Thursday 30 March and presenting a 30,000...

‘Dr Nasser bin Ghaith is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned for the peaceful expression of his conscientiously-held beliefs’ - Lynn Maalouf In response to the sentencing today of the Emirati human...

In response to the killing of two UN experts in Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the...

Date marks 80 th anniversary of arrival in UK of some of the first refugees to play professional football here, after bombing of Guernica during Spanish Civil War Football clubs across the country...