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Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes abuse Redress Board president appointment
Responding to the announcement by the Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan today of the appointment of Mr Justice Colton as the President of the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland programme director of Amnesty International
Press release 15 Nov 2019 -
Award-winning journalist Behrouz Boochani freed from Manus IslandVisa to travel sponsored by Amnesty International
Press release 14 Nov 2019 -
USA: Santa Clarita school shooting a painful tragedyAmnesty calls for urgent and meaningful gun violence prevention
Press release 14 Nov 2019 -
Myanmar: ICC decision to investigate Rohingya atrocities an important step towards justiceDecision 'sends a strong message to the orchestrators of atrocities against Rohingya that their days of impunity are numbered' - Nicholas Bequelin
Press release 14 Nov 2019 -
Sri Lanka: Human rights must be 'at the heart' of the next presidencyPress release 13 Nov 2019
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Limited edition children's protest T-shirts celebrate landmark anniversaryAmnesty International UK and Everpress collaborate to mark the 30th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Press release 13 Nov 2019 -
Morocco: rapper faces possible two-year jail sentence for 'offending' police‘He must be released immediately & all charges in this absurd case against him dropped’
Press release 13 Nov 2019 -
Russia: leading Crimean activist and five co-defendants given long jail sentences‘Emir-Usein Kuku is behind bars simply for speaking out for the rights of the Crimean Tatar community’
Press release 12 Nov 2019 -
Saudi Arabia: labelling of feminism, atheism and homosexuality as extremist is 'outrageous'Loujain al-Hathloul & other women’s rights activists still languishing in jail
Press release 12 Nov 2019 -
Turkey: Decision to re-arrest writer Ahmet Altan a scandalous injustice'It is impossible to see this decision as anything other than further punishment for his determination not be silenced and it compounds an already shocking catalogue of injustice he has been subjected to' - Marie Struthers
Press release 12 Nov 2019 -
USA: charges against humanitarian who helped migrants in Arizona should be droppedTrial is ‘cynical misuse of the justice system’ - Kumi Naidoo
Press release 11 Nov 2019 -
Hong Kong: 'Pervasive and heavy-handed' police measures must be urgently investigated'Police officers like the one seen shooting an apparently unarmed protester at point-blank range must be suspended immediately'- Man-Kei Tam
Press release 11 Nov 2019 -
UK: Government must not prevent 'truth and justice' for victims of Northern Ireland conflict'It is essential that no-one, including members of the Armed Forces, is above the law' - Grainne Teggart
Press release 11 Nov 2019 -
Iraq: rein in security forces to prevent a bloodbathIraqi authorities must immediately rein in security forces after at least six protesters were killed in central Baghdad today amid a police operation to clear demonstrations from several bridges and streets near Tahrir Square, Amnesty International said…
Press release 10 Nov 2019 -
Cambodia: Reprieve for Kem Sokha a ‘token gesture’ that should not distract from human rights crisis'This minor reprieve for Kem Sokha cannot mask the ongoing, severe repression of human rights in Cambodia' - Nicholas Bequelin
Press release 10 Nov 2019 -
Hong Kong: Death of student fleeing tear gas must be investigated'There must be an urgent investigation into the events which led up to Chow Tsz-lok’s fall, including into allegations that officers delayed an ambulance crew who were attempting to reach him' - Man-Kei Tam
Press release 08 Nov 2019 -
Philippines: former Iranian beauty queen must not be sent back to Iran'It’s appalling that she has been detained for so long in airport transit'
Press release 07 Nov 2019 -
Philippines: vice president's war on drugs role 'empty gesture' without halt to killingsThousands already killed in state-sanctioned violence amounting to crimes against humanity
Press release 06 Nov 2019 -
Police ban on Extinction Rebellion protests unlawful, court rules'The sweeping, ill-defined and capital-wide ban sent the chilling message that basic freedoms in this country can be set aside when the authorities choose to do so' - Kate Allen
Press release 06 Nov 2019 -
Israel: deportation of Human Rights Watch's Director 'cowardly'‘The world must not stay silent in the face of this travesty of justice’
Press release 05 Nov 2019
