Press Releases

Human rights activists spied on during doctor’s appointments and funerals, attacked and prevented from meeting The Tunisian authorities should end their subversion of human rights organisations and...

States must use every available minute to draw up a new international arms treaty that could save thousands of lives every year, said a coalition of campaigning organisations as negotiators from 192...

Amnesty International has condemned the bombings which struck a rugby club and a restaurant in the Ugandan capital of Kampala last night, leaving at least 64 people dead. Dozens of football fans who...

Amnesty International has condemned the conviction of the organisers of a Russian art exhibition which used religious symbols on charges of 'inciting hatred or enmity'. A Moscow court today sentenced...

Amnesty International today (9 July) called for the immediate and unconditional release of two human rights defenders facing trial in Angola on charges linked to an attack on the Togolese football...

Amnesty International today issued its reaction to news from the Iranian embassy in London that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani will not be executed by stoning. Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen...

The future of a long-standing prisoner of conscience is expected to be decided in the next few days – and Amnesty International believes the humble fax could hold the key to his release. Mexican...

Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 are urging the Russian authorities to drop the charges against the organisers of Forbidden Art 2006, an exhibition which featured Soviet and post-Soviet art works...

Amnesty International has said any deal over the release of a nuclear scientist, Igor Sutyagin, which requires him to leave Russia against his wishes will amount to forcible exile, which is prohibited...

Amnesty International calls on the Cuban government to immediately free all prisoners of conscience, after authorities yesterday said 52 prisoners will be released. Five of the 52 detainees, whose...