Press releases in 2025

Sexist insults, threats of sexual violence and unlawful and degrading strip searches against women protesters Opposition leader, Elene Khoshtaria, described being violently restrained by police...

Responding to the Government’s latest immigration figures released today (22 May), Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “Today’s figures make...

116 leading UK and Irish creatives have urged Keir Starmer to act over Israel’s escalating atrocities in Gaza, criticising UK arms exports, settlement trade, and lack of ICC support – open letter Riz...

116 leading UK and Irish creatives have urged Keir Starmer to act over Israel’s escalating atrocities in Gaza, criticising UK arms exports, settlement trade, and lack of ICC support – open letter Riz...

Award-winning Al-Dahdouh is Al-Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief and has reported from the Occupied Palestinian Territory for decades Despite numerous family members being killed by Israeli airstrikes in...

In response to the UK government’s announcement that it will suspend free trade agreement negotiations with Israel and impose sanctions on settlers, Sacha Deshmukh, Amnesty International UK’s Chief...

Striking visual protest staged by Amnesty UK, Fossil Free London, and Justice 4 Nigeria coalition coincides with Shell’s AGM This morning, activists from Amnesty International UK, Fossil Free London...

- On National Children’s Day, Amnesty International called for the controversial Prevent duty to be scrapped - Amnesty took their message directly to delegates at the Education World Forum - 40% of...

Russian authorities have declared Amnesty International an ‘undesirable organisation’ The decision comes three years after Russian authorities blocked access to Amnesty’s websites and shut down its...

65 signatories from nine different political parties and independent parliamentarians sign open letter demanding transparency amid escalating mass atrocities in Gaza Letter also expresses alarm at the...