Press Releases
Amnesty International today (9 August) joined in solidarity with approximately 168 million trade unionists globally to call for the immediate and unconditional release of two Iranian trade union...
President Saleh asked ‘to think again’ and spare child offender Amnesty International has today issued an urgent appeal to Yemen's President Saleh to halt the execution of a child offender in Yemen...
The level of threats, intimidation, attacks and killings of activists in Honduras and Guatemala who campaign to defend the rights of marginalised communities is reaching ‘worrying proportions’ said...
NGOs welcome new policy on interpreters, but call for UK action on wider crisis The UK government’s decision to reconsider its refusal to grant special asylum arrangements for Iraqi interpreters...
Launch of ‘Human Rights for China’ campaign Amnesty International has today (7 August) warned that human rights abuses in China are blighting the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as it...
Amnesty International Scotland today (7 August) stepped up its campaign for imprisoned Chinese journalist and poet Shi Tao, as it published a new China report marking ‘one year to go’ until the...
UK Working Group on Arms Press Release The UK Working Group on Arms (1) today welcomes the Quadripartite Committee’s report which warns that UK legislation is struggling to deal with an increasingly...
‘Travesty of justice’ condemned and UK urged to speak out Responding to today’s news that the UK government will make representations for the return to Britain of five UK residents imprisoned at the...
Amnesty International has made an appeal for all Taleban-held hostages in Afghanistan to be immediately and unconditionally released after the organisation made direct contact with members of the...
Sheffield man appeals for his brother to be spared hanging Amnesty International has today called for death sentences against two Kurdish cousins in Iran to be commuted as it issued an “urgent action”...