Press Releases

The comment below is by Amnesty International's interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone There has been a lot of controversy in the media surrounding Amnesty International’s work with Moazzam Begg...

The Chinese authorities must immediately release Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist whose appeal against an 11-year prison sentence was rejected by a Beijing court, Amnesty International said today...

Responding to today’s IPCC ruling on police use of Taser against a man in Nottingham, Amnesty International UK Arms Programme Director, Oliver Sprague said: “The IPCC’s decision that the police...

Amnesty International has called on the Uzbekistani authorities to quash the conviction for "slander and insult" of a prominent photographer and documentary filmmaker who has been recording people's...

Amnesty International has today welcomed the disclosure of information detailing the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed while in US custody. The Court of Appeal this morning ordered that seven...

Amnesty International today reacted to a statement from Vedanta Resources, which was distributed by a marketing agency in Delhi yesterday, regarding Amnesty’s 9 February report “Don’t Mine Us Out of...

Amnesty International today called on President Mugabe and Prime Minister Tsvangirai to fulfil their promise to reform state institutions, in a bid to end human rights violations that have continued...

Amnesty International is calling on Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Afghan Parliament to immediately suspend controversial legislation that will give immunity from prosecution for serious...

Amnesty International today (9 February) called on the Chinese authorities to release human rights activist Tan Zuoren, who was sentenced to five years in prison today for “inciting subversion of...

Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to allow peaceful demonstrations, including by those opposed to the current government, on 11 February, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic...