Press releases in 2017

Responding to the news that 18,000 members of the predominantly Muslim Rohingya community have fled fighting in Burma to seek safety across the border in Bangladesh, Amnesty International’s South Asia...

Reacting to news that Sudanese human rights defender Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam has been released from prison and all charges against him dropped, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional...

Some 75,000 people subjected to enforced disappearance by the Syrian government since 2011 Amnesty launch online platform for families of those abducted “There has been total impunity for those...

A new survey released by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on young peoples’ attitudes towards refugees exposes just how out of touch governments are with their citizens, Amnesty International said today...

Following President Donald Trump’s signing of a new directive banning future transgender individuals serving in the US military, Tarah Demant, Amnesty International USA’s director of Gender, Sexuality...

An air strike which hit Faj Attan, a residential area of Yemen’s capital Sana’a in the early hours of this morning, destroying three homes, killing ten people and injuring seven more, shows that after...

In response to the guilty verdict in the coffin assault case by the Middleburg High Court earlier today, Shenilla Mohamed, Amnesty International South Africa Executive Director, said: “This hideous...

Responding to the attacks by Rohingya militants in Burma which have left at least 71 people, including 12 security personnel, dead, Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaigns Director...

For the first time since the Supreme Court ruled against the state’s capital sentencing statute, Florida has executed a prisoner, killing Mark Asay via lethal injection. The execution happened late...

Quarterly migration report shows that 27,817 people were detained in the last year “The sheer numbers illustrate how the detention process has become normalised, when it ought to be an exceptional...