Press releases in 2007

Celebration event hosted by special guest Lynda Baron with Ali Hili of Iraq Gays On 27 February Amnesty International will be celebrating ten years since the publication of the ground-breaking book...

In an article in this week’s New Statesman, the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams adds his voice to an Amnesty International appeal for Reverend Bienvenido Samba Momessori, a clergyman...

At least 17 people executed so far in 2007 - prisoner swallows nails in protest at death sentence Amnesty International is extremely concerned at an alarming upsurge in executions in Saudi Arabia...

Amnesty International today (22 February) condemned the four-year sentence handed down by an Egyptian court against blogger Karim Amer, and called for his immediate and unconditional release. Amnesty...

The UK is failing to take its share of responsibility for the refugee crisis facing Iraq said Amnesty International today, ahead of the government’s quarterly asylum statistics. While the USA has...

Fears raised after reprieve for Kim Jong-il’s birthday expires Amnesty International is extremely concerned that two border guards in North Korea are at immediate risk of execution for helping North...

Amnesty International UK, Anti-Slavery International, Eaves & UNICEF UK As a powerful new photographic exhibition revealing the reality of trafficking in the UK opens in St Paul’s Cathedral (21...

Fessahaye Yohannes (known as "Joshua"), a journalist, playwright, poet, father of three, and long-term prisoner of conscience, is reported to be dead as a result of severe ill-treatment and denial of...

The Liberian government has done little or nothing to bring to justice thousands of people accused of serious human rights violations during the country's protracted armed conflict, in which hundreds...

Responding to a vote today (14 February 2007) by the European Parliament to adopt a report by an MEPs’ renditions committee, Amnesty International welcomed the report and called for action from the UK...