Press releases in 2019

More than 50 civilians killed in separate attacks - one a Taliban suicide bombing on a hospital ‘Once again it is civilians who bear the brunt of the violence’ - Daphne Eviatar Responding to the...

A new Amnesty International investigation has documented an alarming pattern of the Hong Kong Police Force deploying reckless and indiscriminate tactics while arresting people at protests, as well as...

Aleksandr Gabyshev had been on 8,000km trek to Moscow to ‘purge’ country of President Putin Gabyshev taken away by masked law-enforcement officials earlier today ‘What sounds like a tale from Russian...

Three companies alone left hundreds of employees penniless - true scale likely to be in the thousands ‘Tears come to my eyes when I remember where we used to go to find food … in the bins’ - Kenyan...

Amnesty International has called for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to publicly condemn the Chinese authorities’ abusive policies in Xinjiang and call for an immediate closure of camps...

Responding to India’s detention of Farooq Abdullah, the former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, under the region’s repressive Public Safety Act, Aakar Patel, Head of Amnesty International India...

Climate activists Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for Future movement given top Amnesty International award in Washington DC ‘No one is too small to make a difference’ - Greta Thunberg 'A mass movement...

Repressive laws, jailings, beatings by ‘unknown’ assailants, bank account freezes and smears in state media - among a battery of measures used against activists Russia’s LGBTI activists and human...

What : Belfast Court of Appeal to rule on Friday 20 September whether an investigation into criminal acts committed during the interrogation of the ‘Hooded Men’ should proceed Where : Royal Courts of...

Amnesty International UK is inviting entries for its 28th annual Media Awards, a prestigious set of awards that recognise the vital role journalists play and the serious risks they face in...