Press Releases
Some 100,000 people detained, abducted or ‘missing’ since 2011 - with 90,000 of these disappeared by government forces Relatives in Lebanon and Turkey speak of agony of trying to locate missing loved...
Responding to an attack in Hong Kong today on Jimmy Sham, the convenor of the Civil Human Rights Front, by masked men wielding baseball bats, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong...
Responding to the news that filmmaker Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi was today sentenced to one year in prison in Myanmar for a Facebook post criticising the country’s military, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty...
Two years after a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign forced around 700,000 Rohingya to flee Myanmar for Bangladesh, refugees are still trapped in unbearable conditions in overcrowded camps, Amnesty...
Responding to reports that DHS intends to reprogram disaster relief funds for ICE detention beds and funds for temporary court structures for hearings associated with the “Remain in Mexico” program...
Afghanistan’s human rights community are facing face intimidation, harassment, threats and violence amid intensifying attacks from both the authorities and armed groups, Amnesty International said in...
New data shows 2,500 Syrian refugees forcibly returned in the past three months Almost 2,500 Syrian refugees have been forcibly deported back to Syria in the past three months, according to official...
100 people arrested, 50 kettled and many more prevented from peacefully demonstrating by French authorities Summit talks about the climate crisis and gender equality undermined by heavy-handed...
Human rights violations risk going unreported because of communication blockade Administrative detention used by authorities to curb political mobilisation Amnesty International today called on the...
A video of the killings went viral in July last year Amnesty analysis revealed evidence that the Cameroon military were responsible Seven soldiers are set to go on trial tomorrow (27 August) for the...