Press releases in 2017

Celebrities and artists have written letters to support individuals around the world suffering human rights violations as part of Amnesty’s Write for Rights campaign Anish Kapoor, Vanessa Redgrave and...

Reacting to the deadly attack on the Afghan Voice news agency that has killed at least 40 people and wounded 30 others in the Afghan capital, Kabul, today (28 December), Amnesty International’s South...

Amnesty International has declared 2017 a dangerous year to speak out about human rights, as the organisation decried a pattern of attacks on activists around the world, branding it a “bad year to be...

Reacting to news that the Chinese human rights activist Wu Gan has been sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment, while human rights lawyer Xie Yang has also been found guilty but exempt from punishment...

Amnesty calls on UK Government to recover lost files from Kew national archives Amnesty International has expressed “deep concern” at news that the UK government has “lost” potentially crucial files...

Human rights groups are themselves ostracising LGBTI activists ‘The idea, promoted by Russia, that LGBTI rights are ‘western values’ that somehow constitute a threat to national security, is...

Following the approval of a United Nations resolution condemning President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Sherine Tadros, head of Amnesty International’s UN Office in New...

Commenting on reports that the UK-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been listed on an Iranian judicial database as “eligible for early release”, Amnesty International UK’s...

Amnesty International has appointed Kumi Naidoo as the next Secretary General of the global human rights movement. From August 2018, Kumi will succeed Salil Shetty, who served two terms as Secretary...

70,000 Somali refugees have been pressured to return from Kenya since 2014 and now face a country devastated by conflict and drought 2.1 million are internally displaced in Somalia and thousands have...