Press releases in 2018

Tamimi’s trial set to go ahead tomorrow - she faces up to ten years in jail ‘As an unarmed girl, Ahed posed no threat’ - Magdalena Mughrabi The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage...

Asma Jahangir was a brave champion of human rights who leaves behind a powerful legacy, Amnesty International said today, following the 66-year-old Pakistani lawyer’s sudden death in Lahore on Sunday...

Mohamed al-Kassas hasn’t been seen since security forces raided his home last night ‘We are deeply concerned that Mohamed al-Kassas might have been forcibly disappeared and subjected to torture’ -...

He was arrested after writing about the Arab Spring, jailed for 18 years and named a ‘prisoner of conscience’ by Amnesty ‘He should not have spent a single day behind bars’ - Sarah Jackson Commenting...

Since Duterte launched a nation-wide ‘war on drugs’, thousands of alleged drug offenders have been killed in a massive wave of extrajudicial executions Responding to today’s news that the prosecutor...

Amnesty International and the Family Planning Association will today host a delegation of Labour MPs in Belfast, led by Shadow Secretary of State Owen Smith, as they meet with key individuals and...

Shahr-e Rey prison is a disused chicken farm with no safe drinking water and a reputation for inmate and staff violence Stoning story writer Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and anti-death penalty campaigner...

Reacting to the news that the Cambodian Supreme Court today upheld the conviction and 30-month prison sentence for land rights activist Tep Vanny, Amnesty International's Director for Southeast Asia...

‘We ended up with … a collection of songs that goes back to the very first Vic cover by Orange Juice, to the very latest from Blue Orchids’ - Joe Mckechnie A new collection of Vic Godard cover songs...

The Myanmar security forces’ devastating campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya in Rakhine State is far from over, Amnesty International said today, as it published fresh evidence of...