Press Releases
Journalists Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam should have their convictions quashed Authorities must stop using sedition charge to gag press freedom and other human rights ‘There has rarely been a more...
Iwao Hakamada retracted ‘confession’ alleging it was made under duress and police violence In 2023, 107 of the 115 people on death row had their death sentences finalised putting them at risk of...
Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have hit crowded residential areas, with children and medics among the dead Warnings to Lebanese civilians do not absolve Israel of responsibilities under international...
‘The release of Mehrtens is a reminder that conflict in the region continues to have a very real impact for people’s human rights’ – Usman Hamid Responding to the release of New Zealand pilot Philip...
Pager and walkie-talkie attacks should be investigated as war crimes ‘He took the pager in his hands, I was looking at it, and it said ERROR …. then the pager exploded’ – Witness ‘Detonating thousands...
Responding to today's judgment from the Court of Appeal in Belfast to a challenge to the Troubles Act , Grainne Teggart, Northern Ireland Deputy Director for Amnesty International UK, said: "Today is...
Film obtained from Birmingham trade fair shows staff at UK company The Squad Group Ltd demonstrating electric-shock gloves which deliver painful electric shocks Call on West Midlands Police and HM...
Hong Kong man is first to be sentenced under repressive new law The Government must stop using ‘sedition’ laws to silence dissent ‘Chu Kai-pong has committed no internationally recognised crime and he...
UNGA resolution passed with 124 votes in favour, 43 abstentions and 14 against including the US and Israel The resolution was based on a July advisory opinion by the ICJ that said Israel's continued...
After eight deaths in the Channel this weekend, and ahead of Starmer’s meeting on asylum with Italian Premier Georgia Meloni, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, Steve...