Press releases in 2019

Congress 1 May reporting deadline looming Recent research shows more than 1,600 deaths in Raqqa and at least 14 in Somalia from US-led operations ‘We hope to finally see an honest assessment of the...

Lyra McKee was due to speak at the Amnesty International and Queen’s Film Theatre World Press Freedom Day event Amnesty International and the Queen’s Film Theatre have announced that an event in...

New Amnesty International report shows Ecuadorian authorities are failing to prevent attacks against Amazonian Women environmental defenders Women have faced death threats, physical abuse, and one...

Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison ‘To detain children with adults in the full knowledge that they may be...

Mehdi Sohrabifar (l) and Amin Sedaghat (r) (Credit: Private) Cousins Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat apparently unaware they were to be executed until moments beforehand Pair, arrested aged 15...

A Dutch court will this week (Wednesday 1 May) rule on an historic case against Shell, in which the oil giant stands accused of instigating a raft of horrifying human rights violations committed by...

Following the Internet shutdown in Benin as the country holds parliamentary elections today, François Patuel, Amnesty International's West Africa Researcher, said: “The decision to shut down access to...

A 20-year-old girl has been killed in South Sudan for refusing to marry a man her family had selected for her. Joan Nyanyuki, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and...

Responding to reports that the USA may withdraw its signature from the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International USA’s Deputy Director for Advocacy and Government...

Joint investigation between Amnesty and Airwars is most comprehensive into civilian deaths in modern warfare New interactive website documents hundreds of cases Coalition has admitted to only 10% of...