Press Releases
Responding to reports that Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor is no longer seeking the death penalty for Israa al-Ghomgham, a female activist on trial for peacefully participating in anti-government...
Responding to the Australian Defence Force’s admission that its airstrikes in the Iraqi city of Mosul may have caused up to 18 civilian deaths in 2017, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Middle...
Responding to a Hong Kong judicial review that upheld the government’s policy of forcing transgender people to undergo surgery before having their gender legally recognised, Man-kei Tam, Director of...
In response to reports that at least 11 journalists were detained in Venezuela this week, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Amnesty International’s Americas Director, said: “The detention of journalists is a...
The Russian authorities must stop their vicious campaign against opposition movement Open Russia (Otkrytaya Rossia), Amnesty International said today, after an activist from the organisation was...
In response to reports that Ecuadorian authorities are preventing Venezuelans from entering the country at the Rumichaca border crossing, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty...
Airbnb, TripAdvisor, Expedia and Booking.com accused of turning ‘war crimes into a tourist attraction’ with hundreds of listings in settlements Airbnb still offering holidays in settlements despite...
Responding to the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold its ruling, again acquitting Asia Bibi of blasphemy charges and ordering her release, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, Rimmel Mohydin...
Responding to the five-year prison sentence imposed by a Chinese court against Liu Feiyue, founder of human rights website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch, for “inciting subversion of state power”...
‘The Bahraini authorities must quash Sheikh Ali Salman’s conviction’ - Samah Hadid Responding to news that a Bahraini court has today upheld the conviction of the prominent opposition leader Sheikh...