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USA: Arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil is chilling attack on human rightsThe arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student activist and lawful permanent resident, is the latest attack on human rights by the Trump administration
12 Mar 2025 Press release -
UK: Alarming Crime and Policing Bill yet another assault on the right to peacefully protestThe Bill seeks to criminalise yet more parts of peaceful protest, including banning face coverings and gives police the power to force people who are on limited visas to leave the country.
10 Mar 2025 Press release -
UK: JSO judgment shows anti-protest laws must be 'revised immediately'We are in danger of having laws that only allow for protests that don't bother anybody, and that treat peaceful protest worse than many violent offences.
07 Mar 2025 Press release -
London: Shell must clean up its ‘toxic mess’ in Niger Delta‘Shell must take responsibility for the poisoning they have caused both directly and indirectly and commit to cleaning up their toxic mess’ - Peter Frankental
13 Feb 2025 Press release -
UK/China: ‘Red lines, not red carpet’ needed as Lammy hosts top China diplomat in London‘This is an opportunity to show that the UK will not allow China to buy its silence over human rights concerns’ - Felix Jakens
13 Feb 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Protester's detention extended in unprecedented closed hearing
During Saba Skhvitaridze remand hearing, the court ordered members of public to leave the courtroom before delivering its decision – a measure largely unprecedented for protest-related trials in Georgia.
29 Jan 2025 Press release -
UK: JSO mass-hearing a 'critical opportunity to rethink the crackdown on peaceful protest'The two-day hearing will see 16 Just Stop Oil activists seek to challenge historically draconian sentences for peaceful protest.
28 Jan 2025 Press release -
UK: Police conduct at 'End the Genocide' protest and subsequent arrests are 'seriously concerning'Amnesty responds to how police dealt with the large Palestine solidarity protest outside Whitehall last Saturday.
21 Jan 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Symbolic acts of protest targeted with draconian new law
New laws in Georgia in 2024 target activists and journalists
13 Jan 2025 Press release -
Georgia: Extreme police brutality, torture and hospitalisations in violent crackdown against protesters
Hundreds of protesters in Georgia have faced brutal dispersal tactics, arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment during a crackdown on anti-government rallies
13 Dec 2024 Press release -
37,686 of you called on the Home Secretary to scrap anti-protest lawsMany thanks to the tens of thousands of you who took action calling on the Home Secretary to scrap anti-protest laws in the UK. Together with Liberty and Greenpeace UK we handed a 200,000 signature-strong petition into the Home Office.
10 Dec 2024 Campaign update -
Mozambique: Authorities must end post-election 'assault' on protests now31 Oct 2024 Press release -
Indonesia: New Government must protect human rights and end impunity
Human rights violations include repression of freedom of expression and marginalised Indigenous communities
18 Oct 2024 Press release -
UK: David Lammy must use China visit to challenge Beijing’s brutal suppression of human rights‘The Government should ensure that talks on trade and security relations with China aren’t pursued at the expense of human rights’- Sacha Deshmukh
17 Oct 2024 Press release -
UK: After 100 days in office Government must speed up pace of restoring human rightsAmnesty issues key human rights calls on asylum, Northern Ireland, arms to Israel, homelessness, and protests
11 Oct 2024 Press release -
Myanmar: Torture fears for prominent activists following arrests in new raidsArrests take place as regional leaders meet in Laos to discuss the Myanmar crisis
10 Oct 2024 Press release -
Hong Kong: Prison sentence for wearing slogan T-shirt is ‘blatant attack’ on freedom of expressionHong Kong man is first to be sentenced under repressive new law
19 Sep 2024 Press release -
Indonesia: Police use ‘excessive force’ against peaceful protesters
Police attack, injure and arbitrarily arrest protesters, including children
23 Aug 2024 Press release -
Venezuela: Tech companies set dangerous precedent with app for reporting anti-government protestersPresident Maduro encouraged Venezuelans to report protesters who question his re-election via the government owned VenApp
07 Aug 2024 Press release
