Press Releases

‘Nobody should be locked up just for holding a placard and standing in a public square’ - Sergei Nikitin

‘This is a first for street fundraising … it’s shocking and it’s meant to be’ - Reuben Steains

Over 50,000 people call on UK ambassador in Saudi Arabia to intervene in jailed blogger’s case

‘I saw children without heads’ - factory worker describing a barrel bomb attack on the al-Fardous district

Amnesty International has welcomed the decision by Queen's University Belfast to give the go-ahead to a conference on the Charlie Hebdo shootings and free speech, which had originally been canc

Amnesty International has accused Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson of being “disingenuous” in suggesting that the denial of abortions to women with fatal foetal abnormalit

Amnesty International today (29 April) honoured some of the most talented young people in the UK at its headquarters in Shoreditch, east London at its prestigious Amnesty Youth Awards ceremony.

Failure by the Paraguayan authorities to provide a safe abortion to a 10-year-old rape survivor could have devastating consequences on her health and will heap injustice on tragedy, said Amnesty In

In response to UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s comments on asylum and immigration at the European Parliament today, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: