Press releases in 2020

Responding to reports that the Trump administration is expanding what has become known as the Muslim ban, which President Trump signed during his first week in office, Margaret Huang, Amnesty...

Saudi state-owned Bahri Yanbu cargo vessel has track record of carrying millions of pounds of weapons to Saudi Arabia Dockworkers’ strike in Italy among planned protests ‘Activists and port workers...

Civil rights activist and politician bring case citing threats to right to protest Authorities planning facial recognition system for entire Moscow Metro ‘It is a tool which is likely to take...

Responding to a proposal by the Greek government to install a 1.7 mile-long system of floating dams off the coast of Lesvos to deter new arrivals of people seeking asylum from Turkey, Massimo Moratti...

Amnesty International has described as “very grave” the decision by the Mexican National Institute of Migration (INM) to temporarily suspend access by all religious associations and NGOs to the...

A wave of youth-led protests across Asia is defying escalating repression and a continent-wide crackdown on freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, Amnesty International said today, as it...

The Trump administration’s dismal package of proposals to violate international law and further strip Palestinians of their rights is a handbook for more suffering and abuses in Israel and the...

Reports of three people killed, while two radio stations taken off air “Yesterday’s crackdown on protesters had alarming echoes of Gambia’s brutal past” - Marta Colomer The Gambian authorities have...

Responding to the Metropolitan Police’s announcement that they will soon start using facial recognition cameras in London, Allan Hogarth, Amnesty International UK’s Head of Policy and Government...

Video and eyewitness evidence show live ammunition used against unarmed protesters, with military-grade tear gas canisters fired at short range More than 600 protesters killed since demonstrations...