Press releases in 2018

Figures leaked by government official appear to show more than 19,000 people detained on terrorism grounds, many accused of ISIS links Responding to an Associated Press report that the Iraqi...

Responding to today’s release of 101 of the schoolgirls abducted from a school in Dapchi, Nigeria, by the armed group Boko Haram last month, Osai Ojigho, Amnesty International’s Nigeria Director, said...

Amnesty International is launching a new social media campaign targeting Apple over its betrayal of millions of Chinese iCloud users by recklessly making their personal data vulnerable to the...

Amnesty International will be attending the “March For Our Lives” US gun control event in London on 24 March. The protest rally - organised by US nationals studying at the London School of Economics...

On the day Twitter celebrates 12 years since the first tweet , Amnesty launches campaign challenging Twitter’s failure to prevent online violence and abuse against women Fewer than 1 in 10 British...

Responding to reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. President Donald Trump finalised a new £8.9 billion ($12.5 billon) arms deal in a meeting today at the White House, Raed...

‘The death penalty will not lower the alarming number of deaths related to the use of opioids’ - Kristina Roth Responding to an announcement by US President Donald Trump yesterday that his...

Amnesty International is disappointed at the European Court of Human Rights’ ruling refusing to revise its 1978 conclusion that the treatment to which the United Kingdom subjected the 14 ‘hooded men’...

Members of Proactiva Open Arms group being investigated for ‘criminal conspiracy’ despite rescuing refugees and migrants Following the Italian authorities’ seizure of a Spanish NGO rescue boat...

Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings that a convoy of Boko Haram fighters was heading towards a town where they abducted 110 schoolgirls last month, an investigation by Amnesty...