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Hong Kong: guilty verdict against 'Umbrella' protest leaders a "crushing blow"

Responding to the guilty verdicts for "public nuisance" against nine leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong...

Libya: civilians must be protected as fighting escalates

All parties to conflict have ‘appalling’ human rights records Particular concerns for 1,300 migrants in detention centres in Qasr Ben Gashir and Ain Zara Fears of further civilian bloodshed are...

UK arms to Saudi Arabia: Amnesty joins this week's appeal case

Court of Appeal set to hear case from Campaign Against the Arms Trade - with intervention from Amnesty, Human Rights Watch and Rights Watch UK ‘By selling billions of pounds worth of arms to Saudi...

USA makes first admission over civilian deaths in airstrikes in Somalia

US had previously denied there had been any civilians deaths after 100-plus attacks against al-Shabaab targets in past two years ‘We still need new investigation procedures and all cases of civilian...

Saudi Arabia: New arrests 'shamelessly targeting' journalists and activists

Responding to reports that the Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested at least seven individuals - some of whom are journalists, writers and academics - Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle...

Rwanda: world remembers victims of genocide on 25th anniversary

To mark the 25 th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, which will begin with 100 days of commemoration from today (7 April), Kumi Naidoo, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “On...

Amnesty Media Awards 2019 winners announced

Photographs of the winners can be downloaded here . Credit: Emily Mudie/Amnesty International. The winners of Amnesty International UK’s prestigious Media Awards 2019 have been announced at a ceremony...

Brunei: Shariah penal code introducing 'unspeakably cruel' punishments must be repealed

Responding to news that Brunei has today finalised the implementation of a new Shariah Penal Code that introduces cruel punishments such as death by stoning for same-sex sexual acts and amputation for...

Arrest of Northern Ireland reporters 'sends chilling message to investigative journalists'

Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey will give a speech at Amnesty’s Media Awards ceremony in London this evening “This was a deliberate decision designed to protect state secrets and send a chilling...

Saudi Arabia: Khashoggi execution 'being swept under the carpet' in pursuit of trade

6 months on from execution no real signs of justice Trial of 11 suspects denounced as lacking credibility ‘Some governments whose diplomats have attended the trial of the alleged suspects have...