Press Releases
Man was convicted of drinking alcohol at a wedding when he was a teenager ‘That a child was prosecuted for consuming alcohol and sentenced to 80 lashes beggars belief’ - Philip Luther A man in Iran...
On Friday 13 July, the first day of the US President’s much-discussed visit to the UK, a coalition of organisations will march in protest over the inhumane, divisive, misogynistic and discriminatory...
In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the death sentences in a review plea filed by three of the four convicts in the 2012 Delhi bus gang-rape and murder case, Amnesty International...
Responding to today’s decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, with breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty...
Following the sentencing of six former columnists and editors of the now-closed Zaman newspaper to jail terms of between eight-and-a-half and 10-and-a-half years, and the acquittal of five others...
Amnesty briefing sets out key human rights issues underpinning Zimbabwe’s first election without Mugabe on the ballot “With Mugabe gone, there’s a real opportunity for a fresh start for Zimbabwe” -...
Hundreds of Amnesty activists will be calling for the release of a transgender woman held in US immigration detention during Pride events this weekend “This Pride season, we march in solidarity with...
Protest comes ahead of Friday 13th visit from US President Banner will be directly visible from US Embassy Amnesty International will unfurl a giant protest banner on Vauxhall Bridge in London ahead...
The executions in Japan of seven members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo (Aum) this morning, including the group’s ‘guru’ Chizuo Matsumoto, does not deliver justice, Amnesty International said...
Khan al-Ahmar, home to 180 people east of Jerusalem, has been declared a closed military zone and the entire village faces destruction ‘Going ahead with the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar … is a war...