Press releases in 2022

Activist on fourth day of perilous no-liquids hunger strike UK ministers should insist on proof of life and make interventions at highest level ‘Alaa is now being detained incommunicado’ - Agnès...

Responding to the sentencing of two TikTok celebrities - Mubarak Muhammad and Nazifi Muhammad - by a court in Kano, northern Nigeria, to flogging and a fine for allegedly defaming a politician, Osai...

The Irish Football Association (IFA) must raise human rights concerns with FIFA and the Qatari authorities when officials travel to the country for the opening ceremony of the World Cup later this...

German-flagged ‘Humanity 1’ ordered to leave Sicilian port of Catania with 35 rescued people still on board ‘The law of the sea is clear: a rescue ends when all those rescued are disembarked in a...

At least 151 detainees currently being investigated, while hundreds more have faced arrest and threats Detained UK-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah begins intensified hunger strike today ‘World...

Mona Seif holding candlelight vigil as British national begins intensified hunger strike in Egyptian jail Letter to Rishi Sunak calls on PM to raise activist’s plight at COP27 ‘The Government will...

Governments need to ensure 2030 emissions targets are in line with keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C New briefing documents the devastation being caused by the climate crisis ‘The climate...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s letter to all 32 World Cup nations urges ‘focus on football’ Football’s world body still hasn’t supported remediation programme for migrant workers ‘Hundreds of...

Actor Nazanin Boniadi conveys demand for action at UN in New York More than 200 people have been killed in protest crackdown, including 30 children ‘The UN Human Rights Council must immediately...

Kunti Kamara sentenced to life imprisonment Witnesses described killings, rape, beatings, forced labour, and torture by rebel group and Kunti Kamara The trial was the first in France involving grave...