Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Musharraf on torture: 'Extremely worrying' comments condemned

Need for thorough Gibson torture inquiry ‘underlined’ Responding to the reported comments of former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf’s that there may have been “tacit approval” by the UK...

West Bank: Fogel family killings condemned

Amnesty International has condemned the recent killing of a settler family in the West Banks and also called on Israel to halt a continuing wave of reprisal attacks by West Bank settlers against...

Yemen: those who killed protestors at weekend must be prosecuted

Amnesty International has urged the Yemeni authorities to identify and prosecute members of the security forces responsible for the killings of at least eight anti-government demonstrators over the...

Cuba must release prisoner of conscience on hunger strike

Amnesty International has called on the Cuban authorities to release an activist on hunger strike who was detained for his human rights work three months ago and is set to face trial at the end of...

Malaysia: Government reveals nearly 30,000 foreigners caned

Malaysia should immediately halt the judicial caning of refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said, after the government disclosed that almost 30,000 foreigners had been caned in five years. In...

Saudi Arabia urged to reverse ban on peaceful protest

Amnesty International has called on the Saudi Arabian authorities to reverse the ban on peaceful protest in the Kingdom, amid fears of a violent crackdown on mass demonstrations planned for today's...

Iraqi activists' torture allegations spark fears for detained protesters

A group of anti-government protesters missing since they were arrested this week in Baghdad are feared to be at risk of torture, after other recently released protestors told Amnesty International...

Japan: Death row inmate, 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution

A man believed to be the world’s longest serving death row inmate, who has spent the last 43 years on death row and is 75 today, should be granted a stay of execution, removed from death row and his...

Kenya must comply with ICC summons on post election violence

Amnesty International has urged the Kenyan authorities to ensure that government officials suspected of being implicated in post-election violence in 2008 comply with a summons from the International...

Prince Andrew appeal from father of journalist jailed in Azerbaijan

The father of a wrongly-imprisoned newspaper editor from Azerbaijan has issued an impassioned appeal to the Duke of York to intervene on behalf of his son, following reports that Prince Andrew is...