Press releases in 2021

Amnesty International UK’s book club of monthly stories and activities encourage children to dream big and help shape a fairer world. 83% of British children aged 8-15 said they know little or nothing...

Amnesty’s Evidence Lab analysed and verified satellite imagery, videos and photographs of incidents at the border Digital evidence can be found here which exposes the suspected illegal pushback and...

Responding to the killing of leading Rohingya activist Mohib Ullah, who was shot dead this evening in the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, Saad Hammadi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner...

Amnesty International has called for the Northern Ireland Executive to set up a public inquiry into clerical child sex abuse following the announcement by the Catholic diocese of Dromore of a redress...

After urgent letter to Olympia security fair organisers, NSO will not showcase intrusive surveillance equipment linked to numerous human rights violations Firm’s notorious Pegasus spyware used against...

Responding to news that people in Switzerland have voted in a referendum to make same-sex marriage legal, Alex andra Karle, Director of Amnesty Switzerland, said: “Yesterday’s vote in giving same-sex...

Responding to a Taiwanese court ruling that a government requirement obliging trans people to provide proof of reproductive organ removal surgery in order to affirm their legal gender is...

Responding to the disbandment of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China (Hong Kong Alliance), which has organised Hong Kong’s Tiananmen commemoration vigil for...

Customs and Border Protection officials’ ‘horrific’ behaviour must be properly investigated Visceral images of Texas border agents on horseback apparently trying to ‘round up’ migrants have been...

Aleksandr Gabyshev embarked on epic walk from Yakutsk to Moscow in 2019 Detention in psychiatric hospitals was a common Soviet-era tactic used against dissidents ‘The authorities are using...