Press Releases
Feb 19 2019
5:57 pm
They were sentenced to death for the killing of the former public prosecutor in Cairo ‘Time is running out to save the lives of these nine men’ - Najia Bounaim Nine people in Egypt are at risk of immi...
Feb 19 2019
9:51 am
In response to comments from Australian Border Force Commissioner Michael Outram to a Senate Estimates Committee hearing on Monday that “human error” caused Australian resident and footballer Hakeem a...
Feb 19 2019
12:01 am
“We are seen as ‘disorders’ that need to be fixed” - Kitty There are an estimated 6,000 people in Iceland with variations of sex characteristics Report details how inappropriate healthcare leaves many...
Feb 18 2019
3:56 pm
Catalogue of failures includes no meetings for over a year, no meetings with victims, and no research into clerical abuse A Northern Ireland government probe into allegations of abuse in Mother and Ba...
Feb 15 2019
12:21 pm
Egyptian authorities are flagrantly violating international law by denying family visits to scores of detainees, Amnesty International said today. Amnesty has examined an official document which confi...
Feb 14 2019
1:11 pm
Responding to the European Parliament’s condemnation of the ongoing repression and torture of a group of women’s rights defenders detained in Saudi Arabia since May last year, Covadonga de la Campa, A...
Feb 13 2019
5:05 pm
Egyptian authorities today hanged three prisoners convicted of killing a police officer during clashes that erupted in the weeks following the deadly Rabaa massacre. The executions have brought the to...
Feb 13 2019
3:57 pm
Responding to the decision by Instagram to take down an account featuring comic strips about the life of a Muslim man at the request of the Indonesian government, Usman Hamid, Executive Director of Am...
Feb 13 2019
12:14 pm
Responding to the arrest warrant served to Maria Ressa at the Rappler offices today on charges of ‘cyber libel’, Butch Olano, Director of Amnesty International Philippines, said: “Just days after the...
Feb 13 2019
10:00 am
Medivac Bill passes in parliament and government announces it will reopen Christmas Island detention centre Refugees are not ‘pawns to be used to score political points’ - Dr Graham Thom Following the...