Press Releases
Amnesty consultant Hind Khoudary interrogated and ill-treated by security forces earlier today ‘The crackdown on freedom of expression and the use of torture in Gaza has reached alarming new levels’ -...
Head of Memorial’s Chechnya office - Oyub Titiev - subjected to ‘sham’ trial on drugs offences ‘Oyub Titiev … is a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned solely for his human rights work in Chechnya’ -...
Fighter jet’s missiles said ‘Made in Britain, ruining lives in Yemen’ ‘While UK arms companies are making money, Yemeni civilians are dying in their thousands’ - Kate Allen **PHOTOS AVAILABLE** here...
Restricting visas for investigators working on Afghanistan cases shows USA is ‘hellbent’ on rolling back human rights protections Responding to reports that the USA will restrict visas for...
‘The New Zealand we believe in… welcomes refugees and migrants, and respects the rights of everyone to practise their religion in peace’ - Kumi Naidoo The horrific attacks on two mosques in...
Charges relate to their promotion of women’s rights, and contact with Amnesty and other international organisations Activists include prominent campaigner Loujain al-Hathloul (pictured) ‘This trial is...
Responding to the news that only one British Army soldier will face charges for the Bloody Sunday killings, Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland Campaigns Manager, said: “It is...
‘Instead of criticising young people for taking part in these protests…we should be asking why governments are getting away with playing truant on climate action’ - Kumi Naidoo Amnesty International...
Opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif had tweeted about Omar al-Bashir’s ‘dictatorial’ rule ‘The silence of Bahrain’s key allies, namely the USA and the UK, plays no small part in the unchecked pattern of...
Amnesty has written to all companies in the FTSE 100 spelling out dangers Letter to Liam Fox seeks assurances that Brexit will not see the UK signing Israel trade deal that includes Israel’s illegal...