Press Releases
Oct 15 2019 12:03 pm
On Monday evening, the Metropolitan Police issued a revised section 14 order saying demonstrators protesting in London after 21:00 BST could be arrested. Allan Hogarth, Head of Advocacy and Programmes...
Oct 15 2019 10:07 am
67% of land now occupied by commercial farmers Hunger and sickness rife, with some families eating wild leaves to survive ‘Traditional cattle farmers have lost their best grazing land and now watch he...
Oct 14 2019 6:21 pm
Esraa Abdelfattah abducted in a van on Saturday night, before ordeal in National Security Agency custody One interrogator threatened to strangle her with her own sweatshirt unless she unlocked her pho...
Oct 14 2019 4:05 pm
Prominent prisoner of conscience - who turns 50 next week - is serving ten-year jail sentence ‘Ahmed and I were imprisoned at roughly the same time last year - I’m now free but he remains behind bars’...
Oct 14 2019 2:27 pm
In response to the Queen’s speech which sets out the Government’s proposed legislative programme for the next Parliamentary session, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK’s director, said: “The Governm...
Oct 12 2019 6:42 pm
Responding to the news that Aser Mohamed and Karim Hemada, who were both forcibly disappeared and tortured to “confess” while aged 14 and 17 respectively, have been sentenced to 10 years in prison, Na...
Oct 11 2019 4:31 pm
Call on Ugandan Parliament to ‘resoundingly reject’ legislation ‘This is going to fire up more hatred in an already homophobic environment’ - Joan Nyanyuki Responding to remarks earlier today from Uga...
Oct 11 2019 3:52 pm
The military offensive by Turkey in northeast Syria risks creating a devastating humanitarian catastrophe and further destabilisation of the region, Amnesty International warned today. Marie Struthers...
Oct 11 2019 12:31 pm
With daughter Gabriella’s return to the UK, jailed charity worker’s main support is denied to her ‘This should now be the tipping point - the Iranian authorities should finally do the right thing by r...
Oct 10 2019 6:02 pm
Activist stripped and beaten in notorious Tora jail, while his lawyer also detained in degrading conditions Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to prominence during 2011 uprising against Mubarak ‘Both men appear t...