Press releases in 2020

Responding to the news that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s day in court has been postponed with a new date yet to be set, Kate Allen, Director of Amnesty International UK, said: “Nazanin has already been...

The secret execution this morning of wrestling champion Navid Afkari, without prior notice to his family or lawyer, after a grossly unfair trial, is a horrifying travesty of justice that needs...

The Iranian authorities must immediately reveal the fate and whereabouts of Navid Afkari, a wrestling champion at imminent risk of being executed in secret, Amnesty International said today. The...

Amnesty International today called on the Cambodian authorities to immediately stop their relentless assault on young human rights defenders. In the past few weeks, ten young activists – including a...

Responding to a report published today (Thursday) from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) which suggests that the PSNI Chief Constable should consider...

Responding to today's publication by the UK Government of the Internal Market Bill, Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International UK’s Northern Ireland Programme Director, said: “This Bill is deeply...

Responding to today's publication by the UK Government of the Internal Market Bill, Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International UK’s Northern Ireland Programme Director, said: “This Bill is deeply...

‘Unsuspecting consumers of craft beers from Kirin’s subsidiaries in the UK will be horrified to realise that they may be in any way contributing funds to Myanmar’s military’ - Peter Frankental...

Prisoners stripped, beaten and brutally wounded in chilling torture videos Footage shows soldiers decapitating bodies in mass graves ‘The unspeakable cruelty and inhumanity displayed in these videos...

Amnesty calls for public condemnation of abuses in Hong Kong and Xinjiang Amnesty International has criticised the Executive Office for refusing to publish a report of a meeting in late July between...