Press releases in 2021

Germain Rukuki given hefty jail term on ‘trumped-up’ national security charges in 2018 Human rights defender has been subject of intensive Amnesty campaigning ‘Germain should never have been jailed in...

Judicial authorities have acknowledged that Hossein Shahbazi was under 18-years-old Iran obliged under international law to halt his unlawful execution ‘This execution would be an abhorrent assault on...

‘It is the Minister’s job to remove barriers to healthcare, not create them’ - Grainne Teggart A report on early medical abortions in Northern Ireland published today by Informing Choices NI has shown...

Responding to today’s announcement declaring Ebrahim Raisi as Iran’s next president, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency...

All countries must stop selling arms to Myanmar following the adoption of a resolution by the UN General Assembly condemning the use of lethal force and violence in the country, Amnesty International...

Elika Ashoori makes emotional appeal ahead of Father’s Day Retired engineer Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, detained in Iran for almost four years ‘The Iranian authorities are all too adept at using forced...

Five senior executives arrested, with premises raided by 500 police officers Journalists charged with ‘colluding with a foreign country’ under controversial National Security Law ‘Once again “national...

Health professionals at centre of human rights crisis in Belarus Dozens dismissed, with many barred from medical employment ‘I saw all these mutilated people with broken bones, faces ripped to pieces...

Dozens of children - including infants - ‘housed’ in detention African migrants held for longest periods, with some detained for more than a year ‘There should be no place in Canada for racism...

In response to news that the Hungarian government has passed a law to ban the promotion of LGBTI and gender change issues in education and advertising, David Vig , Director of Amnesty International...