Press releases in 2022

Missile struck civilian vehicles this morning as they prepared to deliver aid to a Russian-occupied location in Zaporizhzhia According to media reports, at least 25 people were killed and 50 wounded...

Author Tsitsi Dangarembga and Julie Barnes convicted for protesting economic hardship They were handed a six-month suspended sentence for participating in the 31 July 2020 protest against economic...

Documents obtained by Amnesty reveal authorities were instructed to “severely confront” protesters at any cost 52 people killed and hundreds injured in brutal crackdown to date ‘The Iranian...

Dozens dead and injured at an educational centre in the Hazara Shiite community area ‘Since their takeover, the Taliban have done little to put in place any measures for the protection of the public...

Morad Tahbaz and Mehran Raoof among cases being highlighted Activists also taking part in a ‘London to Tehran Challenge’ ‘Everyone at Amnesty will be cheering Anoosheh and Aryan on’ - Sacha Deshmukh...

Facebook’s algorithms ‘set to spread hate and violence’ Inflammatory content keeps Facebook users on the platform longer, meaning more targeted advertising can be sold and creating perverse incentive...

Hastily-arranged votes in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia largely conducted in presence of armed men in uniform Any Russian measures over changing status of occupied Ukrainian territory are...

Call for publication of Police Ombudsman investigation, 21 years after brutal murder ‘The authorities’ failure to bring Martin O’Hagan’s killers to justice has fed into a climate of fear for...

Poet Artyom Kamardin subjected to torture - including gruesome sexual violence - by law-enforcement officers Girlfriend also assaulted by police and threatened with gang rape ‘It seems that Russian...

Death toll reaching at least 30 people, four of them children Risk of further bloodshed amid a deliberately imposed internet black out ‘The anger expressed on the streets shows how Iranians feel about...