Press Releases

On the eve of elections in Afghanistan (Saturday 5 April) and following the shooting of two journalists in the country, Kate Hughes, Afghanistan campaign manager at Amnesty International UK, said:

The EU’s deployment of up to 1,000 troops must only be the beginning of the international community’s renewed response to the ethnic cleansing in the Central African Republic, Amnesty I

Past Grand Prix human rights abuses still not addressed

Amnesty International welcomes the UK government’s move to ratify the Arms Trade Treaty which also includes strengthening British laws over arms trafficking and brokering of weapons by UK cit

A shocking increase in attacks by Boko Haram along with uncontrolled retaliations by Nigeria’s security forces has seen the death toll in north-east Nigeria rise to at least

A decision by Japanese prosecutors to appeal against a court ruling to grant Hakamada Iwao, the world’s longest serving death row inmate, a retrial will only add to the decades of psychologic

Move would signal US president’s ‘dismay’ at country’s ban on women’s drivers

The Pakistani authorities should immediately release a Christian man sentenced to death yesterday under the country’s draconian blasphemy laws and quash his conviction, Amnesty International