Press releases in 2021

Exposed: misleading Pfizer claims that one billion Covid-19 doses will be distributed to ‘low and middle-income nations’ In a letter to Amnesty, Pfizer admits that less than 10% of doses have been...

Richard Ratcliffe on day 18 of hunger strike vows to continue until Government acts to free Nazanin UK Foreign Office officials and Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani reported to meet tomorrow...

Women raped at gunpoint, robbed and assaulted Lack of medical care after TPLF fighters damaged and looted hospital Abuses committed as Tigray conflict has spilled over into Amhara region ‘Three of...

Reacting to the news that Russian authorities named LGBT-Network and five human rights lawyers from Komanda 29 ‘foreign agents’, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director, said...

Responding to the last-minute stay that has been granted in the planned execution of Malaysian national Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam, pending an appeal scheduled to take place today, Rachel Chhoa-Howard...

Preliminary results from the Nicaraguan general election suggest that Daniel Ortega will be re-elected Elections were marked by arbitrary arrests of activists and journalists ‘The international...

Around 18,000 were robbed of their land The community has been struggling in inadequate resettlement camps Reports of continued killings, shootings and beatings by the Uganda Wildlife Authority Uganda...

Nagaenthran K Dharmalingam is scheduled to be hanged next Wednesday (10 Nov) He was caught carrying drugs into the country in 2009 Medical experts say Nagaenthran has ‘borderline functioning...

Several regions have asked civilians to take up arms Alarming rise in social media posts advocating ethnic violence New emergency powers threaten human rights ‘The sweeping nature of this state of...

Under Maduro’s government there have been widespread detentions, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence This is the first ICC investigation in a country in the Americas ‘The Prosecutor...