Press releases in 2021

Legislation imposed by Beijing was implemented one year ago and at least 118 arrested since law came into force Chinese-style imprisonment sees people being jailed before they are convicted and...

Outlet had announced publication of investigation into alleged unlawful enrichment by interior minister’s family Editor-in-chief Roman Badanin investigated over four-year-old libel case Raids ‘part of...

UK-wide bans on LGBT+ 'conversion therapy' should be urgently introduced, Amnesty International UK will tell the Government today, as the Prime Minister hosts a Pride reception at 10 Downing Street...

Responding to reports that the Home Secretary is seeking powers to send people seeking asylum in the UK to be processed in an offshore hub , Tom Davies, Refugees Campaign Manager at Amnesty...

Responding to reports that journalist Roman Protasevich and his partner Sofya Sapega have been moved from pre-trial detention to house arrest in Belarus, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s...

Investigation into Hebron activist’s death after ‘brutal’ arrest must be impartial Palestinian security forces were reportedly ‘after him’ over his public criticism ‘Nizar Banat was a known critic of...

‘Discriminatory crackdown’ allowed Jewish supremacists to freely organise their own violent demonstrations ‘Tonight we are not Jews, we are Nazis’ - Jewish supremacists circulated extremist social...

‘The use of this unlawful technique is a brutal means of control and is a significant danger to people’ - Barbora Cernuakova Responding to the death of a Roma man in the Czech Republic after a police...

‘The multiple and sustained Taser shocks used against Dalian Atkinson were part of a toxic cocktail of abusive and discriminatory policing’ - Oliver Feeley-Sprague Black people eight times more likely...

Testimonies from 16 people describe torture and illegal pushbacks One group deliberately left stranded on river island for days ‘Violent pushbacks have become the de facto Greek border control policy...