Press Releases
Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity according to an Amnesty International report published today. Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme Director...
Human rights situation will remain bleak if coalition fails to act within deadline Amnesty International today made a call to the new Pakistan government to immediately reinstate around 60 senior...
Amnesty International has just received information that at about 10 am (local time) today, five police officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) raided the...
As European Commission President Barroso and nine other Commissioners head to China, Amnesty International warns that the success of their mission depends on real improvements in the human rights...
Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release 41 Children's rights held after a raid on the Al Hidya mosque in Mogadishu – the capital of Somalia – on 19 April 2008, which...
Amnesty International said today (23 April) that all shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk that it...
Amnesty International said today that all shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk that it may lead to...
Amnesty International has today launched a hard-hitting new film about “waterboarding”, the practice of torturing prisoners by partially drowning them. Amnesty’s film, called “Stuff Of Life”, is set...
Amnesty International today called on the UN and governments in Central Africa to take immediate action to secure the release of more than 350 men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...
Amnesty International has called for an immediate moratorium on executions in Iraq after 28 people were executed this week after what appear to have been hasty and unfair trials. Amnesty International...