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Press releases in 2017

China: foreign medics travelling to country to treat Liu Xiaobo is part of 'cruel farce'

‘President Xi Jinping must do the right thing and order his immediate release’ - Salil Shetty The Chinese authorities are demonstrating a new form of cruelty by preventing Liu Xiaobo from leaving the...

Bahrain: prominent human rights activist at risk of sexual assault after late-night arrest

Ebtisam al-Saegh taken away from her home by 25 masked officers shortly before midnight Shortly before her arrest she’d been tweeting about by security agents’ ill-treatment of women Amnesty...

Amnesty welcomes Welsh Government commitment to abortion funding for women from Northern Ireland

“It is deeply ironic that every government in the UK has now pledged to address the injustice facing women from Northern Ireland, except the failed administration at Stormont” – Patrick Corrigan...

New 'messy' data project uses digital activists to track Niger Delta oil spills

‘Decode Oil Spills’ project will track spills in the Niger Delta Innovative project comes as new legal action accuses Shell of complicity in 1990s hangings Amnesty International has launched a new...

South Sudan: Civilians hacked with machetes, burnt to death and women gang-raped in new conflict frontline

A new frontline in South Sudan’s conflict has forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee the country’s fertile Equatoria region over the past year as they attempt to escape ongoing atrocities...

Bangladesh: Prominent writer and human rights campaigner abducted

The Bangladesh authorities must make every effort to trace the whereabouts of and recover a prominent writer who has been abducted and may have been subject to an enforced disappearance, Amnesty...