Press releases in 2017

Responding to the decision by the US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to grant the Trump administration’s request to temporarily reinstate a portion of the ban on refugees. Margaret Huang...

‘Akhtem Chiygoz is a prisoner of conscience jailed solely for peacefully exercising his human rights’ - Oksana Pokalchuk The Crimean Tatar leader Akhtem Chiygoz a should be immediately released, said...

Two new landmine incidents today point to deliberate targeting of Rohingya Brings number of sites where Burmese authorities have planted banned landmines to three “This a cruel and callous way of...

Military landmines along border of Rakhine State are putting thousands at risk Civilians - including children - have already been injured, with one man reportedly killed “What is unfolding in front of...

Issa Amro detained earlier this week after using Facebook to criticise arrest of radio journalist ‘The fact that the Palestinian authorities are so quickly making use of the newly-adopted cybercrimes...

Responding to news that a vote on legalising same-sex marriage in Australia will proceed after the High Court dismissed two legal challenges, Naomi Vaughan, Amnesty International Australia’s Marriage...

EMELI SANDE, JP COOPER, JAKE BUGG, JORJA SMITH, NADIA ROSE, MAVERICK SABRE & MORE JOIN THE LINEUP 1,000 musicians to perform on 20 September for Amnesty and Sofar Sounds’ global refugee solidarity...

The threat of prosecution against the medical profession in Northern Ireland to make abortion referrals to the UK has been lifted, Amnesty International has said today. The Director of Public...

Report details ‘disastrous decline’ in human rights in last year Amnesty writes to minister Alistair Burt after Bahrainis in Gulf targeted following peaceful protests outside Downing Street and...

***Please be advised quotes include offensive language*** “It’s the volume of it which makes it so debilitating, so corrosive, and so upsetting.” - Diane Abbott MP, in new Amnesty video “It’s time...