Press releases in 2023

Ruling recognises as ‘extremist’ an undefined ‘international public LGBT movement’ ‘Participants’ could be jailed for five years, and ‘organisers’ and donors of LGBTQ+ groups face possible ten-year...

Responding to the sentencing of a South Korean man, Lee Yoon-seop, to 14 months in prison for praising North Korea in a poem, Amnesty International said poetry was not a crime and called for the...

Reacting to a BBC report that Sultan Al Jaber, the president-designate of COP28, who is also the chief executive of the UAE’s Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), was briefed to advance the...

Fans and players will have seen ‘UAE - Free Ahmed Mansoor’ message in giant red lettering Prominent Emirati activist has been arbitrarily jailed for more than six years ‘We’re calling on City fans to...

At least 64 Emiratis have been unlawfully jailed because of actual or perceived political opposition to the authorities Prominent human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor among those held ‘If the UAE...

Estimated 35 million unsafe abortions every year Health workers feel isolated and unsupported with threats of criminalisation, harassment, verbal and violent abus ‘ Anti-abortion rhetoric, policies...

Commenting on the Foreign Secretary David Cameron’s visit to Israel and Palestine today, Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK's Chief Executive, said: “With the horrifying civilian death toll from...

New Home Office quarterly statistics published hours after two people die crossing the Channel Slight decrease in number of unresolved asylum cases, with 165,411 compared to 175,457 in previous...

In response to reports of at least two deaths in the English Channel, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “We are heartbroken by this loss of...

’In the face of this latest attempt at intimidation, everyone must come together to call for this bill to be dropped’ - Dávid Vig Responding to the submission to the Hungarian parliament this week of...