Press Releases
Responding to the arrest of two men in Hong Kong for possession of children’s books – classified as “seditious materials” – that depicted mainland Chinese authorities as leaders of the wolves Hana...
135 people died after police fir ed tear gas into crowds at football stadium Only a handful of people convicted for the disaster caused by security forces ‘The authorities are once again failing to...
Children as young as 12 tortured to break their spirit and extract forced confessions Detainees systematically humiliated, including case of boy forced to make chicken noises for half an hour until he...
Amnesty and Democracy for the Arab World Now documented construction equipment giant’s involvement in five West Bank demolitions last year Letter to company demands halt to involvement in threatened...
Repressive new bill would allow indefinite detention for irregular migrants and people seeking asylum Migrants tell Amnesty of harsh conditions in detention centres, with hunger strikes and people...
Justyna Wydrzyńska sentenced to eight months’ community service for assisting pregnant women in obtaining abortion pills Abortion is subject to a near-total ban in Poland ‘ The case sets a dangerous...
Tropical Cyclone Freddy has been one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere ‘[These countries] are facing the full force of storms intensifying due to global warming' -...
Hussein Abo al-Kheir was subjected to an unfair trial and allegedly tortured - UN recently called for his ‘immediate and unconditional’ release Saudi authorities have already executed 11 people so far...
Greater availability of ‘less-lethal’ weapons has led to rise in the use of force against protesters, with huge increase in eye injuries resulting in blindness There were more than 440 eye injuries...
PSNI has strip searched children as young as 12 to 14 years old Between 2021 and 2022, 53 strip searches were carried out on children ‘The use of strip searches on children is a serious violation of...