Press releases in 2020

The Ethiopian authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Oromia News Network and three Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) officials who remain in custody a week after charges against them...

Amnesty International launches appeal calling on Northern Ireland Secretary of State to allow women to take abortion pills at home during pandemic With travel unsafe, measures already introduced in...

Thousands crammed into two dormitories designated ‘isolation areas’ ‘Migrant workers living in crowded quarters … are at particular risk of exposure to the virus’ - Rachel Chhoa-Howard Responding to...

Older refugees are both the most at risk from the pandemic and the least included in the humanitarian response Dangerous lack of access to even basic information New research shows mistakes made...

Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang has been released after four and a half years in prison but has been barred from returning to his family in Beijing. Amnesty International today expressed...

Anastasia Vasilyeva posted YouTube video saying doctors shouldn’t work without protective equipment Arrested while bringing masks and other PPE to a hospital in Novgorod Was reportedly choked by...

Concern that religious tensions could be inflamed if Muslim families not allowed to bury relatives in accordance with religious practice Forced cremations during coronavirus crisis flout WHO...

Nazanin Zagahri-Ratcliffe pictured after her temporary release last month © FreeNazanin campaign Four-year point reached as British national out of jail on temporary basis Fellow UK-Iranian dual...

Call on president to increase supply of PPE and ventilators as US coronavirus infection rates soar Disturbing accounts of dangerous conditions in immigration detention facilities - new Amnesty report...

More than 17,000 arrested for breaching quarantine measures Reports of inhuman punishments - including sitting for hours in the hot sun or being detained in dog cages 'We call on the president to...