Press releases in 2010

In response to British prime minister David Cameron’s address to Peking University today, Sam Zarifi, Asia-Pacific Programme Director for Amnesty International, said: “Amnesty International welcomes...

Amnesty International today condemned the two-and-a-half-year sentence given to a Chinese activist who organised a support group for parents of babies who became ill after drinking tainted milk...

Gael García Bernal, Marc Silver and Amnesty International have come together to create THE INVISIBLES – four short films documenting the plight of migrants travelling without legal permission through...

Amnesty International UK today reacted with dismay to comments from the Business Secretary Vince Cable on the Today programme this morning that suggested a UK Government-led delegation to China will...

Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to ensure the protection of journalists after several attacks in and near Moscow in the past four days. Late on Friday, Oleg Kashin of the...

Amnesty International has called on the Syrian authorities to investigate an assault on an award-winning human rights activist and lawyer in prison by another inmate and whether prison officials were...

Just days after Amnesty International published its report highlighting the threat of forced eviction of more than 200,000 people in Port Harcourt for urban regeneration, the authorities in the region...

Enough is enough. The sham nature of these elections should convince even the military government’s allies to side with the people of the country instead The government of Burma has compromised the...

A new Amnesty report will be launched in Jakarta on Thursday 4 November and will detail the fatal consequences of denying access to sexual health services for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights...

Amnesty International has urged the Ukraine authorities to stop the harassment of a trade union activist who remains in hiding after a court ordered him to undergo a forced psychiatric examination...