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UK: Priti Patel delivers 'shameless and nonsensical' promises to reform asylum system

Responding to the Home Secretary’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference today, Kate Allen, Amnesty UK Director, said: “It is less than a week since Priti Patel promised to deliver a cultural...

UK: Older people in care homes abandoned to die amid Government failures during coronavirus pandemic - new report

Key failings included decisions to discharge thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes and imposition of blanket DNARs Care home managers and staff say they were left without guidance...

Egypt: security forces crackdown on protesters with teargas, birdshot and live ammunition

Protesters demanding economic and social rights met by deadly force and mass arrests Two shot dead and more than 570 arrested – some as young as 11-years-old Amnesty International has interviewed...

Saudi Arabia: thousands of Ethiopian migrants held in 'hellish' conditions - new investigation

Thousands of Ethiopians expelled by neighbouring Yemen in March left to languish in disease-ridden Saudi cells Reports of dead bodies in cells, with lack of soap and water creating acute COVID risk...

Amnesty welcomes EU move to ensure Government respects international law

Amnesty International has welcomed today's announcement by the European Commission that it is initiating legal action against the UK Government as a result of the Internal Market Bill. The UK...

Amnesty calls for Human Rights Act to be celebrated across UK to mark 20th anniversary

Amnesty International UK today called for the Human Rights Act to be celebrated all over the country to mark the 20th anniversary of the Act coming into force. The Act has been essential to the big...

UK: Offshore asylum processing proposal 'entirely inhumane'

‘For too long the Home Office has done its worst business behind closed doors’ – Kate Allen Responding to news that the UK Government is considering plans to create offshore asylum processing...

Amnesty Media Awards 2020: For Sama, ITV, Daily Mirror, Sunday Telegraph and BBC News Arabic amongst winners

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...

USA: concerns over tech giant Palantir involvement in immigration enforcement

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...

India: Amnesty International hounded out of country as government freezes accounts

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...