Press releases in 2024

Protest will also see a fresh call for the UK to halt arms transfers to Israel British Palestinians - all with family currently trapped in Gaza - and Amnesty International UK activists will stage a...

Chinese students in UK, other parts of Europe and North America face intimidation and surveillance from Chinese and Hong Kong authorities Families back in China and Hong Kong warned about students’...

‘ Immigration powers must not be weaponised to suppress freedom of expression and the right to peaceful assembly’ - Ilyas Nagdee Recent reports of student and other visas being revoked due to...

Awards hosted by comedian Nish Kumar BBC Africa Eye and Panorama took home award for best Broadcast Feature, while Sky News won Broadcast News Outstanding Impact Award dedicated to the journalists...

Israeli authorities pushing for displacement and segregation of the Bedouin community in the Naqab ‘We cannot stop this plan; Highway number 6 would pass over our bodies regardless of how hard we...

Human Rights Bill is key to John Swinney achieving goal of tackling child poverty ‘People especially [from the Lived Experience Boards] deserve to see the Scottish government deliver on bringing...

FIFA still sitting on an independent human rights review into providing remedy for hundreds of thousands of abused migrant workers Call comes ahead of FIFA’s annual congress meeting next week ‘FIFA...

During PMQs in the House of Commons today, Rishi Sunak said that “the UK Government doesn’t, itself, directly provide or ship arms to Israel”, a factually incorrect statement which the Government’s...

Responding to explosive revelations about the routine targeting of journalists by the police in Northern Ireland made today at the Royal Courts of Justice , Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International’s...

Responding to the announcement that MSPs have voted for new SNP leader John Swinney to be Scotland’s next first minister , Neil Cowan Amnesty International’s Scotland Director, said: “The Scottish...