Press releases in 2024

A new report presented to the Policing Board last week has identified up to 18 incidents of intrusive surveillance by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) involving members of the media and...

In response to the police in Georgia violently dispersing an overwhelmingly peaceful demonstration in Tbilisi, where protestors rallied against the controversial “foreign influence” bill, Denis...

New report shows how UK and USA are complicit in systematic cruelty and neglect, with hundreds dying in little-reported detention facilities as a result of torture and horrific conditions Staggering...

In response to news that the Georgian parliament made the first steps to approve the contentious bill “On transparency of foreign influence,” which is similar to last year’s widely contested and...

More than 40 civil society organisations call for proposed sale to be blocked as it risks worsening human rights abuses Deal appears to fall far short of several regulatory and legal requirements...

Over 1,700 children abducted by gunmen since 2014 17 mass school abductions recorded in six years 20 released Chibok girls forced to marry former Boko Haram fighters ‘Government has neither the will...

One year since the conflict began, response from international community remains woefully inadequate ​ Fighting has intensified across the country with more than 14,700 people  killed ​ Approx 10.7...

Russia scaling up relentless aggression against civilian population ‘Deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure …. and causing overwhelming harm to civilians is a violation of international...

In response to news that Polish lawmakers approved four amendments to Poland’s abortion laws in a first reading in parliament today, Miko Czerwiński, Amnesty International’s Poland Head of Campaigns...

Jon Boutcher’s answers on secret surveillance by the police against journalists and lawyers ‘fell short’ Board’s human rights advisor to further investigate police policy and practice but does not go...