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AMNESTY CALLS FOR URGENT ACTION TO PREVENT TORTURE OF BBC JOURNALIST IN KINSHASA JAIL
Press release 28 Jun 2000
- Urgent Action outcome: Ailing professor granted bail, charges remain
Professor Muhammad Ismail was finally granted bail by the Peshawar High Court on 12 April 2021.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Apr 2021- Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh released from Jail in India
19 Feb 2011 Blog post- Decision not to jail Stansted 15 'a relief, but not enough'
We welcome this news but are still concerned that this trial has severely impacted human rights in the UK.
Press release 06 Feb 2019- UK: 'Horrifying' that Defend Our Juries spokespeople are being threatened with severe jail sentences
04 Sep 2025 Press release- Taner Kılıç released after 432 days in jail
Taner Kılıç - Chair of Amnesty Turkey - was released on 31 January 2018 after eight months in jail in Turkey. Read more now.
15 Aug 2018- Bangladesh: Photographer Shahidul Alam denied bail in 'cruel affront to justice'
Press release 11 Sep 2018- Bawm Prisoners individuals at risk case
On April 2024, 126 Indigenous Bawm people, including 27 women and children, were arbitrary arrested as part of an ongoing military operation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh. They have been in prison for more than a year on the…
13 May 2025 Blog post- Bangladesh: Senior Awami League politician in danger of torture
Press release 09 Jan 2003- U2 honours Aung San Suu Kyi as trial nears end
Blog post 27 Jul 2009- Amnesty appeal for journalist that Yahoo! helped send to jail
Press release 06 Nov 2007- Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai jail sentence a 'travesty of justice' and attack on freedom of expression
Responding to the 20-year sentence handed to British national and Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai today for so-called ‘national security’ offences, Amnesty International calls the vindictive sentence effectively a life term and demands his immediate and unconditional release.
09 Feb 2026 Press release- Ash and Cobra: A lesson for Burma
Blog post 19 Apr 2010- Our 2018 human rights victories!
As we come to the end of 2018 and head into a new year, I want to say thank you for being a human rights champion. I’m so grateful to be facing the future with you. Together, we’ve achieved so much in the last 12 months.
Blog post 12 Dec 2018- Amnesty International at the Edinburgh Festival 2009
Press release 22 Jun 2009- Saffron suffering goes on
Blog post 24 Sep 2010- Good things come in threes
These last weeks of summer have been exceptional for us, seeing the release of three human rights defenders. July saw the release of Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi, in early August our much loved Turkish colleague Taner Kilic was freed and finally in…
Blog post 29 Aug 2018- Malaysia: Government crackdown on freedom of expression
Press release 07 May 2009- The story behind our first Urgent Action, forty years ago
Professor Luiz Basilio Rossi was arrested and tortured by the Brazilian military junta for his political activism. It was 1973. After thousands of people around the world wrote letters, Luiz was freed. It's a method we still use today: write to the…
Blog post 19 Mar 2013- Urgent Action Outcome: Journalist Released After 29 Months In Jail
On 24 April 2022, the Egyptian authorities released journalist Mohamed Salah who had been arbitrarily detained.
Urgent action outcomes 25 May 2022 - Urgent Action outcome: Ailing professor granted bail, charges remain