Press Releases

The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold...

New Assembly Government Strategy expected Drastic improvements needed say campaigners Campaigners today (1st Feb) say that Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Wales have one...

Amnesty International UK today issued a call for the UK’s Control Orders regime to be scrapped, as Lord Carlile published his review into Control Orders and reports emerged of the soaring cost of...

On Friday 26th February, the winning play of iceandfire and Amnesty International’s 2008 Protect the Human playwriting competition, ‘After the Accident’ by Oxford-based Julian Armitstead will be aired...

Amnesty International today called on the Iranian authorities to reveal the whereabouts of two music journalists, Behrang Tonekaboni and Kayvan Farzin and the reason why they have been detained. Both...

Honduras government faces confidence crisis if abuses are not addressed Amnesty International today issued a series of recommendations to newly elected Honduran President Porfirio Lobo to repair the...

Amnesty voices concern after Anwar Ibrahim is denied access to evidence Amnesty International urged the Malaysian authorities to drop politically-motivated criminal charges of sodomy against Anwar...

Amnesty International has voiced its fears that the forthcoming trial of a prominent photographer in Uzbekistan is just the latest attempt by the Uzbek authorities to suppress freedom of expression in...

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of two men arrested during protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last year. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were...

Human rights, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights, must not be traded away or compromised during any reconciliation talks with the Taleban in Afghanistan...