Press releases in 2019

Authorities urged to end their crackdown on women’s rights activists, including Loujain al-Hathloul, Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada Women will still need a guardian’s permission to be married or to...

‘Muzzling of dissent has had a devastating and chilling effect’ - Marta Colomer Repressive measures such as torture, extra judicial executions, arbitrary arrests used by the world’s longest serving...

‘The mere fact that forms of expression are considered insulting to a public figure is not sufficient ground to penalise anyone’ - Joan Nyanyuki Stella Nyanzi, a prominent Ugandan academic, has been...

Amnesty International has again called on Japan to abolish the death penalty after two men were executed in the country this morning. In the early hours of Friday morning, Koichi Shoji, 64, was hanged...

The bombing of medical facilities is ‘part of a pattern’ by the Syrian authorities ‘During the offensive on Idlib, the Syrian authorities have repeatedly displayed a callous disregard for the lives of...

Peyman Mirzazadeh reportedly flogged 20 times for ‘drinking alcohol’ and 80 times for ‘insulting Islam’ Was previously jailed for singing songs in support of opposition groups ‘It is appalling that...

All charges against a filmmaker on trial today for Facebook posts critical of the Myanmar military must be dropped immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said. Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi is a...