Press Releases
Michelle Bachelet, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has concluded a six-day visit to China Bachelet received appeals from Uyghurs about missing family members believed to be detained and said...
Home Office will stop profiting from those who cannot afford the child citizenship fees of £1,012 Current administrative costs are £416 per application meaning £596 profit is made by Home Office from...
Event comes after landmark Amnesty report earlier this year Discussion will explore ways activists can help dismantle Israel’s racist system of oppression against Palestinians Amnesty International...
New 2022 Q1 immigration figures show backlog of asylum claims awaiting a decision after more than six months at 73,207 Under Priti Patel, the Home Office has become a byword for backlogs and...
Responding to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in the US state of Texas, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA’s Ending Gun Violence Campaign Manager, said: “We find...
Jaafar Sultan and Sadeq Thamer held in solitary confinement for three-and-a-half months after arrest and denied legal representation New global statistics show ‘grim trend’ of increased executions in...
In response to the police strip searching a child, Ilyas Nagdee, Amnesty International UK’s Racial Justice Director, said: “The use of strip searches against children is a serious violation of their...
Amnesty International has called on MPs to reject the controversial Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Bill, which it warned will create a deeply unfair two-tier justice system and...
In response to the police chiefs new race action plan published today , Ilyas Nagdee, Amnesty International UK’s Racial Justice Director, said: “Racism is still rampant in policing and it’s...
Annual survey of capital punishment shows how courts re-opening after Covid fuelled increase in death sentences and executions Disturbing spikes in Iran and Saudi Arabia, while 86 people given death...