Press Releases

TV comedian Tim McGarry has joined local Amnesty International campaigners in welcoming the release of U Win Tin, a 78-year-old Burmese journalist who has been the subject of the organisation's...

Amnesty International is making urgent representations to the Nepalese authorities about the case of a woman who was allegedly tortured in police custody, including by being threatened with having...

Amnesty International welcomes the release of at least seven prisoners of conscience in Burma, including 78-year-old journalist and prominent dissident U Win Tin who had been imprisoned for 19 years...

[Amnesty Burma expert available for interview] Amnesty International welcomes the release of U Win Tin, a 78-year-old Burmese journalist who has been the subject of the organisation's Edinburgh...

Call for an international Arms Treaty ahead of key UN meeting in October Weapons transfers that fuelled the military crackdown in Burma and the ongoing conflict ravaging the Darfur region of Sudan may...

As the world waits to see the details of the agreement reached by leaders in Zimbabwe to end the political impasse since the March elections, Amnesty International today said the agreement’s validity...

Clemency board urged to act in case where witness statements included one from illiterate man who couldn’t read his own signed statement Amnesty International is calling on the state authorities in...

Amnesty International has issued a call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohamed Erraji, the 29-year-old blogger sentenced this week to two years imprisonment reportedly for “lack of...

More than 130 crew members of at least nine ships are being held hostage by pirates off the coast of Puntland, in north-eastern Somalia. A number of the hostages are reported to have been injured...

Tens of thousands at risk as government tells aid agencies to leave war-torn Wanni The Sri Lankan government’s decision to tell United Nations (UN) and non-governmental aid workers to leave the war...