Press releases in 2012

Amnesty International is calling on the Israeli authorities to investigate allegations that two Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in protest at their administrative detention have been ill...

Amnesty International is warning of a crackdown on freedom of expression in Tunisia after the arrests of two journalists who are being charged with alcohol and “morals” offences. Journalist and...

Governments across the Americas are putting profit before the physical and cultural survival of thousands of indigenous peoples, Amnesty International warned today. In a new briefing paper published...

Shopkeeper who received an unfair trial and was allegedly tortured could be executed at any time Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to urgently overturn a death sentence for a...

‘Turning Syria’s most populous city into a battlefield will have devastating consequences for civilians’ - Christoph Koettl Amnesty International has warned that both sides fighting in Aleppo may be...

Amnesty International has today hosted its annual Human Rights and Journalism panel discussion on current human rights issues being debated in the press and the importance of investigative journalism...

‘Leaving it up to Texas over how to comply … appears to be something akin to leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse’ - Rob Freer The Texas authorities should commute the death sentence of a...

‘Killing captives is a serious violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime’ - Philip Luther The investigation announced by the Free Syrian Army (FSA) into the alleged unlawful killings...

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Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) have challenged oil company Shell’s claims that sabotage was responsible for a seven-day-long oil spill in...