Press Releases

Responding to the news that Nobel Peace Prize Winner Liu Xiaobo has died, Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said: “Today we grieve the loss of a giant of human rights. Liu...

Amnesty International UK and Liberty today jointly call on the Government to ensure the Brexit process does not roll back the rights and freedoms of people in the UK – and to include this formal...

The Japanese government’s continued use of the death penalty demonstrates a contempt for the right to life following the execution of two men earlier today, Amnesty International said. The executions...

ISIS has used human shields, summarily killed hundreds - possibly thousands - of civilians and hung bodies from electricity pylons as warning to others Iraqi and US-led coalition’s bombardments have...

‘Imprisoning Nabeel Rajab simply for sharing his opinion is a flagrant violation of human rights’ - Salil Shetty The sentencing of the Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab to two years in...

‘This is a deeply disappointing outcome’ - James Lynch A court ruling that the UK Government is entitled to continue authorising arms supplies to Saudi Arabia is a potentially “deadly blow” to Yemeni...

Press briefing on Turkey's human rights crackdown at the G20 in Hamburg today by Amnesty's Secretary General Salil Shetty. 14.30 local time, more d etails below. Amnesty International’s Secretary...

The Chinese authorities must end their ruthless campaign of detention and torture of human rights lawyers and activists, said Amnesty International, on the second anniversary of the start of an...

Chinese labour activist Liu Shaoming is the latest victim of the authorities’ relentless assault on human rights after he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years in jail for publishing his story of the...

The soaring death toll in the central Mediterranean and the horrific abuses faced by thousands of refugees and migrants in Libyan detention centres are clearly linked to failing EU policies, said...