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Press releases in 2023

UK: Police must not bow to political pressure to ban weekend march

Responding to controversy about possible moves to ban a planned march this weekend, Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s Chief Executive, said: “The police must not bow to political pressure to...

UK: Government's Prevent Duty 'fundamentally incompatible' with human rights - major new report

Thousands of people, including innocent children, are caught up in Government's counter-terror duty. Nearly one in three referrals are for children under 15, with one child referred after joking he...

Write for Rights: Global letter writing movement stands with victims of human rights abuses

Amnesty International launches flagship Write for Rights campaign to help people facing human rights abuses around the world Millions of letters and emails will be sent to support these individuals...

UK: Sunak's AI Summit should consider possible discriminatory impact of the technology

AI Safety Summit being held at Bletchley Park today and Thursday Last week Rishi Sunak said UK would use AI tools to ‘clamp down’ on benefit fraud ‘The AI summit’s agenda clearly favours the interests...