Press releases in 2018

Four more told they too will be expelled to Iraq tomorrow (Thursday) Since 2011, Bahrain has revoked the nationality of over 550 people, including at least 150 last year ‘The Bahraini government is...

FRIDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2018, 12-1PM Campaigners will mark the two-year anniversary of the discovery of the body of the murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni with a demonstration outside the...

‘Courtroom breaks into cheers’ - Kate Allen, observing the trial in Istanbul Following a decision by a court in Istanbul today to conditionally release the Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, Taner...

Family assured that execution had been halted, shortly before Ali Kazemi’s hanging at midday today Execution is already second of a juvenile offender in Iran in 2018, and one of dozens in recent years...

‘The police’s so-called ‘re-education’ of transgender people is not only humiliating and inhumane, it is also unlawful and a clear breach of their human rights’ - Usman Hamid Reacting to the arrest...

The Nigerian authorities’ response to communal violence is totally inadequate, and in some cases unlawful, Amnesty International said today, as clashes between herdsmen and farmers in five states have...

More than one million supporters have called for ‘politically-motivated’ charges against 11 human rights activists to be dropped Those on trial include Taner Kılıç, Amnesty’s Turkey chair, and İdil...

Of 152 migrants on board the vessel, at least 30 Somalis and Ethiopians have reportedly drowned Yemen suffering ‘a spiralling humanitarian crisis that has left more than 22 million people reliant on...

Responding to news that an asylum-seeker being treated at a hospital in Papua New Guinea for a serious medical condition has been restrained for three days and is being force-fed by hospital staff...

Responding to the news that the Russian authorities have refused to grant bail to Oyub Titiev, head of human rights group Memorial’s office in the city of Grozny, following a hearing in the Supreme...