Press releases in 2018

Malaysia’s first change of government for almost 60 years presents a huge opportunity to break with the human rights violations of the past, Amnesty International said as the poll result was declared...

‘We still don’t know the full facts in this deeply-troubling affair’ - Kate Allen Responding to a statement in the House of Commons by the Attorney General Jeremy Wright on the settlement of a civil...

Responding to the news reports that Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will visit the UK in the next few days, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s Director, said: “This visit is an opportunity...

Alleged role in CIA torture and ‘black site’ detention programme should preclude her from job until full investigation undertaken Amnesty International has called on the US Senate Select Committee on...

Responding to the news that three U.S. citizens – Kim Dong-chul, Kim Hak-song, and Kim Sang-duk – have been recently released by North Korea after spending months behind bars without a fair trial...

The Metropolitan Police Service’s ‘Gangs Matrix’ is the “wrong tool for the wrong problem” Amnesty International said today, as it published a damning report into the little-known gang-mapping...

Trial begins in Mytilene of three Spanish firefighters who face up to ten years in jail Spokespeople attending the trial and available for interview 'Efforts by NGOs to save lives at sea should ... be...

Some prisoners have been in solitary confinement since 2013 Prisoners not told when - or if - their isolation will end Some detainees tortured for extended periods, including by having heads...

Following the forceful dispersal of today’s (5 May) peaceful opposition rallies in Moscow and all over Russia, and the inaction of the police who allowed the beating of protesters by unknown people in...

‘He’s not our tsar’ protests called by Aleksei Navalny planned in dozens of cities tomorrow Amnesty spokespeople on the ground available for interview The Russian authorities must allow protests...