Press releases in 2010

Responding to reports that a UK company supplied the drug used as part of the lethal injection in the execution earlier today of Jeffrey Landrigan, a prisoner in the state of Arizona in the United...

“The fact that the military commission system falls short of international fair trial standards is not changed by a plea deal being reached in Omar Khadr’s case” - Rob Freer Amnesty International has...

Amnesty International today called on the USA to investigate how much US officials knew about the torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by Iraqi security forces after new evidence emerged...

Amnesty International is calling on the new mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, to protect the right to peaceful assembly after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the city's recent banning of...

Amnesty International has welcomed the Indian government's decision to reject plans for the expansion of an alumina refinery by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources, in the state of Orissa...

More than one year after reaching an out-of-court settlement with the oil-trading company Trafigura over waste dumping in Côte d’Ivoire thousands of victims are still waiting to receive their...

Edinburgh – celebration of incredible life of Polish author On Wednesday 27th October, Amnesty International and Sandstone Press will launch ‘The Long Bridge’ by Urszula Muskus, an autobiographical...

Amnesty International has today [Thursday 21st October] called on the Scottish Government and the Strathclyde Police Authority to provide a thorough evaluation, including the role of Scottish...

Institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland is not just an historic issue, but must be addressed for the many hundreds still living with the trauma today and for the protection of those Children's...

The Indonesian government should initiate an independent investigation into reports of torture and other ill-treatment in Papua over the last two years, Amnesty International said today. A video...