Press Releases
Amnesty International’s Write for Rights letter-writing campaign launches People held in UK immigration detention centres and 10 human rights activists detained in Turkey amongst those receiving...
Westminster must now legislate for marriage equality in Northern Ireland following the collapse of the inter-party talks to restore devolved government in the province, say Love Equality campaigners...
Sayfullo Saipov is criminal suspect and ‘should be treated as such by the US justice system’ Responding to US President Donald Trump saying he would consider sending the man accused of yesterday’s...
Move apparently ‘retaliation’ for Amnesty’s settlement goods campaign ‘It flies in the face of the government’s repeated claims that Israel is a tolerant state’ - Philip Luther Israel’s decision to...
Responding to news that the UK Government has announced a review into legal aid cuts, Rachel Logan, Law and Human Rights Programme Director at Amnesty International UK, said: “While we welcome this...
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in UK to mark 100 years since Balfour Declaration Visit coincides with Israel’s military trial of two high-profile Palestinian activists ‘It’s not just...
‘This is a clear attempt to muzzle Sayed Alwadaei from afar’ - Samah Hadid Three relatives of an outspoken critic of the Bahraini government, Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, who lives in exile in the UK, were...
The Venezuelan authorities are involved in a campaign of intimidation against its people, Amnesty International said in a new report published today, which details security forces smashing their way...
Amnesty researchers are on Manus Island and available for interview Amnesty International researchers have been on Manus Island for several days interviewing a wide range of people about the human...
Fatal police shootings in food markets and people’s homes in attempt to punish election protesters One man was dragged by police to a sewage ditch and forced to drink from it “What we are witnessing...