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Urgent: Stop the new Snooper’s Charter annihilating our rights
Every citizen in the UK under surveillance: this is the government's plan. The government is ignoring tech industry experts, rights groups - and its own advice - to rush through the Investigatory Powers Bill, a piece of legislation that will violate the…
Blog post 11 Mar 2016- Mass surveillance by another name
The UK government is basically planning to extend existing mass surveillance of all residents of the UK. We're not talking targeted, effective surveillance of people who are suspected of wrongdoing - we're talking blanket surveillance of each of us. We…
Blog post 06 Nov 2015- Nigeria: Military killing of unarmed pro-Biafra supporters must be investigated
Press release 10 Jun 2016- Snooper's Charter: 'People spend longer choosing a holiday than politicians are being allowed to scrutinise this Bill'
Press release 15 Mar 2016- Briefing - Victims and Prisoners Bill - Committee Stage Part 4, House of Lords (February 2024)
In this briefing for Committee stage (part 4) of the Victims and Prisoners Bill, we ask Peers to focus on three key areas
Parliamentary briefing 06 Jun 2024- We need to know why the UK government spied on Amnesty International
At 5pm on the hottest day of the year, an email from a secret court quietly announced that UK intelligence services had unlawfully intercepted and stored our private communications. We had to take the UK government to court to find this out.
Blog post 02 Jul 2015- UK: Secret tribunal on journalist surveillance is 'test case for press freedom'
London court hearing looking into claims the two Belfast journalists were secretly monitored by UK authorities
28 Feb 2024 Press release- Northern Ireland: Police ‘have serious questions to answer’ in press freedom case
London court hearing looking into claims the two Belfast journalists were secretly monitored by UK authorities
30 Sep 2024 Press release- You have no unread messages: Why Amnesty is taking action over surveillance concerns
Our Head of Advocacy explains why, in the wake of the now infamous Snowden revelations, we are taking the UK government to court for its mass surveillance practices. We have to go through some bureaucratic channels, but it is possible to challenge the…
Blog post 09 Dec 2013- Don't spy on us
'No matter who you are, where you are, and regardless of the device you're reading this on, chances are, you are in some capacity being watched.' Our Head of Advocacy blogs on the problem with the UK government's attitude to mass surveillance, and how…
Blog post 20 Mar 2014- Ipswich
Welcome to the Ipswich Amnesty local group page. We are currently working on the cases of prisoners Nasser Zefzafi in Morocco and Oqab Hashad in Egypt.
- Investigation into abuses against Palestinian hunger strikers called for
Press release 15 May 2012- Northern Ireland: 'Chilling' evidence of police routinely spying on 'trouble-making' journalists
08 May 2024 Press release- Amnesty International brings claim against UK over GCHQ surveillance
Press release 09 Dec 2013- ‘Emergency’ spy laws: It’s never been more vital to watch the watchmen
Press release 10 Jul 2014- UK Surveillance Bill: wider powers will take UK closer to becoming a surveillance state
Press release 04 Nov 2015- The UK government has been spying on Amnesty – so we're going to court
The UK government has been spying on Amnesty’s communications. More than that – they’ve broken their own rules in the way they’ve done it.
Blog post 07 Nov 2017- UK government’s mass spying ruled unlawful
We have won a historic victory against the UK government’s spy agencies, GCHQ, Mi5 and Mi6 over their indiscriminate surveillance practices. The landmark verdict proves that mass surveillance sharing on such an industrial scale was unlawful, and a…
06 Feb 2015- Yemen: at least six civilians burned to death in latest airstrikes
Press release 31 Mar 2015- Turkey: Imprisoned journalists and human rights defenders at risk of coronavirus must urgently be released
Amnesty and a number of other organisations have released a joint statement
Press release 30 Mar 2020 - Mass surveillance by another name