Press Releases
Responding to the Government’s latest immigration statistics released today (21 August), Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “Today’s data...
Responding to a challenge to the planning status of hotels housing asylum seekers, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland Director of Amnesty International, said: “Amnesty International has long raised...
Rwanda-backed M23 and Congo-backed Wazalendo accused of gang rapes and widespread abuses against civilians ‘Let them be punished so they don’t do such acts to someone else’ - woman was tied between...
‘I panic just thinking about the potential impact of my own hunger on the baby’s health, its weight, whether it will have [birth defects], and even if the baby is born healthy, what life awaits it...
Ahead of the meeting between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richard in Anchorage, Alaska, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern...
The Taliban de-facto authorities must reinstate a formal constitutional and legal framework and the rule of law and immediately end the arbitrary and unfair delivery of justice in accordance with...
Amnesty International has written to Chief Constable Jon Boutcher to urge the PSNI to uphold human rights law following arrest of protester in Belfast for wearing a ‘We are all Palestine Action’ T...
Police Scotland and the Lord Advocate have been urged to uphold human rights law in Scotland following mass arrests of peaceful protestors in London this weekend. ‘Any arrests for the type of pe...
In response to the arrest of a woman in Belfast today for wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘We are all Palestine Action’, Patrick Corrigan, Northern Ireland Director of Amnesty International UK, said...
In response to the mass arrests of Palestine Action protesters in Parliament Square today, Sacha Deshmukh, Chief Executive of Amnesty International UK, said: “Today’s mass arrests of peaceful...