Press releases in 2020

Rich countries have hoarded enough doses to vaccinate their entire populations nearly 3 times over Nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten people against COVID-19 next year...

Report details how both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military have committed atrocities against older women and men during conflict in Northeast Nigeria Older people starved or slaughtered in their...

Amnesty warns troop withdrawal does not necessarily mean end to military action US has carried out dozens of air strikes each year, killing and wounding civilians The US military must not wash its...

Responding to today’s arrests of eight people who participated in a protest at Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) last month, including three students who have been charged under the national...

‘From Hillsborough, to Grenfell to the appalling mishandling of the recent Covid crisis in care homes, we have never so badly needed a means to hold the Government to account’ - Kate Allen Responding...

Amnesty International today issued an urgent call to the international community to step in and halt the real threat to the Egyptian human right movement, following the court decision to freeze the...

Speaker Gwyneth Ho has been attacked by pro-government thugs and banned from Hong Kong elections Original planned speaker Joshua Wong has now been jailed by pro-Beijing authorities Amnesty has invited...

Joint statement following High Court ruling that children under 16 are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to undergo treatment with puberty-blocking drug Amnesty International UK and Liberty...

Men were convicted after grossly unfair trials involving torture-tainted ‘confessions’ Authorities in Urumieh preparing to bring a guillotine to the jail New figures show Iran carries out amputation...

In response to the relocation of hundreds of Rohingya refugees to the Bhashan Char, a remote island in the Bay of Bengal, Saad Hammadi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, said: “The...