Press Releases
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “The danger is that coalition forces risk feeding extremism with every hastily discharged weapon and every arbitrary detention. So many civilians...
Amnesty International UK Media Director Lesley Warner said: “While the UN is dragging its heels, those responsible for grave crimes in East Timor are free and, in many cases, are in active military...
Amnesty International UK Media Director Lesley Warner said: “The loss of life in Iraq in recent days is tragic and unacceptable. The parties to the conflict must immediately take all necessary...
The two-day conference, an Amnesty International initiative co-organised by the National Organisation for the Defence of Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) in Yemen, will take place at the Taj Sheba Hotel in...
"Minors may not be held at HMP Maghaberry." Beverley Hughes, MP, Home Office Minister - House of Commons, Written Answers, 30 March 2004 "Immigration detainees held at HMP Maghaberry are located on a...
Amnesty International is urging the UN fact-finding mission into Chad and Darfur, western Sudan, to investigate the extrajudicial execution of 168 men near Deleij in Wadi Saleh between 5 and 7 March...
The new figures, published in the Amnesty International report Death penalty worldwide , show that last year at least 1,146 people were executed in 28 countries. At least 2,756 people were also...
It is estimated that between a quarter and half a million Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights were subject to rape, including gang rape, sexual torture and mutilation, during...
Hundreds of people, some reports say up to 2,500, including Children's rights, remain in detention. Most are held incommunicado, without access to lawyers or relatives, and thereby at risk of torture...
This was the declaration issued by Amnesty International UK from its national conference in Manchester today (Sunday 4 April). The Amnesty International national conference, attended by 600 delegates...