Press releases in 2020

Prestigious Amnesty Media Awards 2020 winners announced 5 Live, The Impartial Reporter and BBC World Service also awarded top spots Entry for the 2021 awards now open ‘These awards recognise truly...

Technology firm provided services which led to separation of child migrants from parents Palantir has contract with NHS to facilitate Covid-19 datastore ‘The UK public have a right to know what sort...

Two-year campaign of harassment culminates in bank account freeze ‘ This is an egregious and shameful act by the Indian Government’ - Julie Verhaar Amnesty International has today (Tuesday 29...

Celebrities call to make safe and legal routes available so that fewer people will feel compelled to make dangerous Channel crossings Sir Patrick Stewart, Adwoa Aboah, Neil Gaiman, Richard Curtis and...

The men - from West Azerbaijan province - were tortured into making false confessions More than 100 people have suffered amputation punishments in recent years ‘Carrying out such unspeakably inhumane...

Responding to the introduction of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Bill in Parliament today which could see MI5 agents and other Government bodies legally authorised to commit...

EU-supported Libyan Coast Guard intercepted more than 8,000 people in Mediterranean so far this year, forcing them back to high-risk Libya Testimony from more than 30 refugees and migrants provides...

Amnesty USA has written to Kentucky attorney general raising serious concerns over police tactics used in Taylor raid Authorities need to allow peaceful protests over the killing ‘This case must serve...

‘This appears to be an attempt to rebrand a system which has been failing for years’ - Eve Geddie New report tomorrow on refugees forced back to Libya Responding to new measures on migration announced...

The UK’s biggest human rights organisations have labelled the Government’s response to the Gender Recognition Act (2004) consultation - which looked to update the law on legal gender recognition – a...