Press releases in 2018

Egyptian military’s false claims over IEDs from ‘terrorist elements’ debunked by expert analysis of video ‘This new video confirms our worst fears, that the Egyptian Armed Forces are using cluster...

Reacting to a New York Times article alleging that an unpublished United Nations report reveals that from 2012 to 2017 North Korea secretly shipped supplies to Syria that could be used to produce...

Mohammad bin Salman’s trip to UK comes after much-touted reforms in Kingdom Ahead of the visit to the UK next week of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, Mohammad bin Salman, Amnesty International UK’s...

Scores of civilians have been killed in the Syrian towns of Afrin and Azaz in recent weeks following indiscriminate attacks by the Turkish military and Kurdish forces, according to eyewitness...

The Maldivian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release all people who have been detained under the state of emergency solely for exercising their human rights and halt attacks on...

‘The Iranian authorities have violated women’s human rights in Iran for decades’ - Magdalena Mughrabi A warning by Iranian police that women in the country could be jailed for up to ten years for...

‘We want to send a message to Washington – there’s a storm brewing’ - Margaret Huang Prohibition on ‘influencing public’ An advertising campaign from Amnesty International USA that was rejected by the...

“It shouldn’t require a ceasefire for starving civilians to be allowed life-saving assistance and protection from being deliberately bombarded.” Sherine Tadros Security Council must ensure attacks on...

UN findings include accounts of soldiers castrating men, gang-raping women and forcing children to watch their mothers being raped Responding to today’s UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan...

Amnesty International has welcomed a report by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women published today, which finds the United Kingdom responsible for “grave”’...