Press Releases

As Russia prepares to mark National Unity Day on 4 November, Amnesty International has urged the authorities to publicly speak out against racism and violence directed at foreigners and ethnic...

Amnesty International today (2 November) expressed deep concern at the implications of the ruling of the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) on the cases of three Algerian men – Mustapha...

Amnesty International has applauded the decision of Glasgow City Council to make a Freedom of the City award to Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as a welcome and noble gesture, which

Pupils at Mulberry school collaborate with acclaimed Irish author to help promote CLICK, a fundraising book for Amnesty International Girls at Mulberry School in Tower Hamlets yesterday rose to a...

Amnesty International today warned that today’s Law Lords ruling may only lead to the government persisting with a watered-down Control Order regime that remains fundamentally unfair. The organisation...

Human rights organisation expresses disappointment with Constitutional Court ruling Amnesty International is deeply disappointed with today’s Indonesian Constitutional Court ruling to uphold the death...

Amnesty international UK Director Kate Allen said: “Gordon Brown should use this meeting with the Saudi King to make absolutely clear that the extent and severity of human rights abuses in King...

Amnesty International highlights two cases of severe human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia As King Abdullah begins his second day of his UK state visit, Amnesty International has urged the UK Government...

Gays rights conference attacked by smoke bombs after rally was banned Amnesty International is deeply concerned by yesterday’s attacks on the gay community in Vilnius, which saw the mayor ban a rally...

From 29 to 31 October the highest court in the UK, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, will be hearing the case of R (Hilal Abdul Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence...