Press releases in 2023

Amnesty International guide to protect yourself from police surveillance published HERE PSNI secretly searched journalist's phone records Amnesty wrote to Policing Board to investigate PSNI use of...

Israeli court gives go-ahead to evict Bedouin Palestinians and replace with Jewish Israelis Eviction part of plan to build a new neighbourhood for the city of Dimona ‘This judgment underscores the...

At least 2,000 people are believed to be under the sentence of death ‘The death penalty is never the solution’ - Chiara Sangiorgio In response to the late-night execution of two men on death row in...

One execution was for drug offences Kuwait has executed 12 people this year Disturbing upward trend in executions by countries in the Gulf ‘There is no credible evidence that such executions by the...

Singaporean national Saridewi Djamani was executed today, the second execution this week A third execution is expected next week Singapore is one of four countries that still executes people for drug...

New enforcement drive includes thousands of police warning texts, confiscation of cars, job dismissals and people referred to courts In one case earlier this month, a woman was ordered to wash corpses...

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has relentlessly suppressed rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly Crackdown on protest organisers, journalists, political opposition and human...

Reacting to news that Ghana’s Parliament voted to remove the death penalty from the 1960 Criminal and Other Offences Act as well as the 1962 Armed Forces Act, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s...

Two executions for drug offences expected this week First woman due to be executed in the country for 20 years Singapore is one of four countries that still executes people for drug offences ‘There is...

Amnesty has written to Policing Board to investigate PSNI use of secret surveillance powers against journalists 'The pattern of treating journalists as criminal suspects must end' - Patrick Corrigan...