Press Releases
LONDON, MONDAY 9 OCTOBER 2017 ‘No-one is free until we’re all free’ Amnesty International UK and The Syria Campaign are hosting an event with a prominent group of Syrian women in London on Monday 9...
Report says that 683 children were killed or injured by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition in Yemen in 2016 UK still selling billions of pounds worth of arms to Saudi Arabia ‘While we welcome the overdue...
Southeast Asian leaders must take urgent steps to address grave human rights violations against the Rohingya in Myanmar, Amnesty International said in a letter sent to the chair of the Association of...
European governments are wrong to claim parts of Afghanistan are safe - 2016 was deadliest year on record for civilians and 2017 is going the same way More than 75% of Afghan asylum-seekers in UK have...
The international community must help ensure that no Rohingya refugees are forced back to Myanmar as long as they are at risk of serious human rights violations following the army’s vicious campaign...
Campaigners meeting party leaders today as moves to return to devolved government continue ‘We want to see a return to devolved government and, with that, a watertight commitment to ensure the passage...
Spanish authorities must carry out a swift, thorough and impartial investigation after Amnesty International observers in Catalonia confirmed excessive and unnecessary use of force by police...
In response to the arrest of Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani for reporting that Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe and officials from the ruling ZANU-PF party donated used clothes, including night...
Aleksei Navalny and fellow campaigner Leonid Volkov sentenced to 20 days’ detention ‘It is a blatant attempt by the Russian authorities to suppress and suffocate any dissenting voices’ - Denis...
Amnesty International observers confirm the dangerous and inappropriate use of riot control equipment, including beating of defenceless people offering no resistance, and calls for a swift, thorough...