Press releases in 2019

Responding to the eight-month suspended prison sentence of Hong Kong lawmaker Tanya Chan for her role in the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Nine protests, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International...

Murtaja Qureiris faces possible execution for offences which date back to when he was just ten years old CNN footage shows him taking part in bike protest with other young boys in Shi’a Eastern...

Ivan Golunov - who had been investigating government corruption - appears to have been beaten in custody He faces eight years in jail on ‘dubious’ drugs charge ‘Everything indicates that the...

Climate activists Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement given top Amnesty International award ‘To act on your conscience means that you fight for what you think is right’ - Greta Thunberg...

Protester’s bodies weighted with bricks and thrown in the Nile Wave of arrests, including of prominent opposition figure Yassir Saeed Arman Rapid Support Forces ‘must be ordered off the streets and...

Responding to today’s last-minute decision by the Greek government to amend the criminal code to recognise in law that sex without consent is rape, Eirini Gaitanou, Amnesty International’s Greece...

‘Ruins of Liberation’ site gives rare behind-the-scenes look at Amnesty’s work amid the ruins of Raqqa Today marks second anniversary of the anti-ISIS operation which killed at least 1,600 civilians...

In response to a Hong Kong’s court ruling today that the government’s refusal to grant same-sex couples access to spousal employment benefits is unlawful, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty...

Up to 100 killings in Khartoum, with bodies dumped in River Nile Military forces involved in past crimes in Darfur implicated in the slaughter ‘Reports that bodies have been dumped in the river...

The Vietnamese authorities are cracking down on social media users, Amnesty International warned, ahead of the controversial trial of government critic Nguyen Ngoc Anh tomorrow. Nguyen Ngoc Anh is an...