Press releases in 2020

Law enables termination up to the 14th week of pregnancy Bill was passed with 38 votes in favour, 29 against and 1 abstention in the Senate ‘Today we have grown as a society’ - Mariela Belski Amnesty...

In the context of the imminent vote on a bill to legalise the voluntary termination of pregnancies in Argentina, Amnesty International in Northern Ireland and the Abortion Rights Campaign...

Women’s rights activist sentenced to five years and eight months in prison After more than 900 days in detention Al-Hathloul could see early release in March “This sentencing, while partially...

Responding to the horrifying killing of at least 100 people by armed assailants in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz Region on the morning of 23 December, Netsanet Belay, Research and Advocacy Director of...

Responding to today's critical report by the Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland on PSNI policing of Black Lives Matter protests, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland Programme Director of Amnesty...

Elika, daughter of detained dual-national Ashoori, shown discussing emotional heartache with Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s daughter Gabriella Two daughters bake cakes together, while Gabriella makes Christmas...

Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee , 30, has spent more than 12 years on death row and will be executed 'next week' As a child he was forced to ‘confess’ to murder after being beaten, kicked, punched and whipped...

In Dominican Republic - 85,000 people detained in three-month period Rubber bullets fired at people ‘loitering’ on streets during lockdown in South Africa ‘Security forces all over the world are...

Denmark is only the 12th country in Europe to recognise sex without consent as rape Responding to the passing of a bill in Denmark’s Parliament today that, once law, will recognise that sex without...

In response to an investigation by The Bureau of Investigation Journalism (TBIJ) and The Guardian that found surveillance companies are working with telecoms companies in the Channel Islands in an...