Press releases in 2019

Responding to national abortion statistics (p.21) out today that show 1,053 women travelled from Northern Ireland to England or Wales in 2018 for an abortion - an increase of 192 women from the year...

Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was given 33-year jail sentence earlier this year Prominent human rights defender has dedicated her life to opposing forced veiling and death penalty ‘The world is watching and...

Amnesty observers witnessed police violence, as more than 400 people - including children - arrested ‘Yet again, the Russian authorities met peaceful dissent with an assault on rights and freedoms’ -...

Amnesty International has condemned the use of force against largely peaceful protesters by Hong Kong police - who used tear gas, guns firing bean bags and rubber bullets, batons and pepper spray - to...

School pupils and student activists from across the UK will attend a parliamentary event tomorrow hosted by Amnesty UK, the All-Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group and the British Group of the...

Botswana's High Court has ruled in favour of decriminalising consensual same-sex relations. Responding to the ruling, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Southern Africa...

Responding to comments made by the Northern Ireland Retired Police Officers’ Association, Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, said: “The families of the Loughinisland victims have yet to...

New evidence that ‘scorched earth’ attacks continue UN and African Union set to vote to close peacekeeping mission on 27 June which would expose civilians to brutal tactics of Sudanese security forces...

Oyub Titiev, head of Memorial’s Chechnya office, was convicted of drugs offences after ‘sham trial’ Parole comes days after detention of investigative journalist, Ivan Golunov, also held on dubious...

Call for investigation into lethal violence in Sobame Da which left dozens dead Central Mali has been riven by ethnic violence for months Following the reported unlawful killings of nearly 100 people...