Press releases in 2024

Responding to today's judgment from the Court of Appeal in Belfast to a challenge to the Troubles Act , Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland Deputy Director for Amnesty International UK, said: "Today is...

Film obtained from Birmingham trade fair shows staff at UK company The Squad Group Ltd demonstrating electric-shock gloves which deliver painful electric shocks Call on West Midlands Police and HM...

Hong Kong man is first to be sentenced under repressive new law The Government must stop using ‘sedition’ laws to silence dissent ‘Chu Kai-pong has committed no internationally recognised crime and he...

UNGA resolution passed with 124 votes in favour, 43 abstentions and 14 against including the US and Israel The resolution was based on a July advisory opinion by the ICJ that said Israel's continued...

After eight deaths in the Channel this weekend, and ahead of Starmer’s meeting on asylum with Italian Premier Georgia Meloni, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, Steve...

Responding to reports that eight people have died during an attempted crossing of the Channel, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “This is yet...

Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on 16 September 2022 sparked the nationwide Woman Life Freedom protests followed by a brutal crackdown by the authorities A ‘war on women’ has escalated with intensified...

Saudi to host the Internet Governance Forum in 100 days Hosting forum reveals Government’s deep hypocrisy given its history of arbitrarily detaining people for expressing their views online Saudi...

Same-sex relationships still not recognised in law Government needs to show progress taken since court ruling ‘Equality is being denied on a daily basis’ - Sarah Brooks One year after a landmark...

74% of parents in Great Britain think it should be compulsory for schools to teach children about their human rights - new figures released today reveal 81% of parents want schools to teach their...