Press releases in 2018

Turkish authorities have today detained 13 activists in connection with the investigation into jailed human rights defender Osman Kavala. Responding to the detentions, Andrew Gardner, Amnesty...

At least 79 refugees and migrants in Misratah port at risk of torture if forced to disembark in Libya ‘Nivin’ cargo ship appears to have breached international law in taking dozens of migrants back to...

Responding the Information Commissioner’s Office investigation that found the Metropolitan Police Service’s Gangs Matrix breached data protection laws, Tanya O’Carroll, Amnesty International’s...

Responding to the guilty verdict handed to Khmer Rouge cadres Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) today, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International...

An Indonesian high school teacher who has been jailed for recording abusive phone calls from her principal must be released, Amnesty International said today. After the Supreme Court yesterday decided...

Vahid Mazloumin and Mohammad Esmail Ghasemi condemned to death after grossly unfair televised show trial Responding to news that the Iranian authorities have executed two men convicted of financial...

The Bangladesh and Myanmar authorities must immediately halt plans to send Rohingya refugees back to Rakhine State, Amnesty International said today. A first wave of organised returns could begin as...

‘If the situation escalates into a fully-fledged armed conflict it would have a disastrous impact’ - Saleh Hegazi Responding to an escalation of hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups...

L-r: Mohammad Momeni Timas (reportedly executed), Zoudieh Afrawi and Sadegh Nazari - three of the people arrested in the crackdown © Private/Amnesty graphic Up to 600 members of the persecuted...

Eyewitness describes terrifying scenes as explosions rock hospital in central Hodeidah Hundreds of patients and staff dodged a hail of shrapnel as they fled in panic ‘Deliberately attacking a...