Press Releases

International and local human rights organisations have today urged the Nepali authorities to stop obstructing criminal proceedings over the alleged torture and murder of 15-year-old Maina Sunuwar by...

Burma’s government must halt its repression of ethnic minority activists before forthcoming national and local elections, Amnesty International warned in a major report released today. The 58-page...

The President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaoré, has committed to lifting all financial barriers to emergency obstetric care and access to family planning, as part of a strategy to fight maternal...

The Iranian government’s view of the state of human rights in the country is severely distorted, Amnesty International said today in an analysis paper prepared ahead of a review of Iran by the United...

Amnesty International has called on Acting President Goodluck Jonathan to fulfil the commitments made in his acceptance speech by setting up an independent commission of inquiry into all suspected...

The comment below is by Amnesty International's interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone There has been a lot of controversy in the media surrounding Amnesty International’s work with Moazzam Begg...

The Chinese authorities must immediately release Liu Xiaobo, a human rights activist whose appeal against an 11-year prison sentence was rejected by a Beijing court, Amnesty International said today...

Responding to today’s IPCC ruling on police use of Taser against a man in Nottingham, Amnesty International UK Arms Programme Director, Oliver Sprague said: “The IPCC’s decision that the police...

Amnesty International has called on the Uzbekistani authorities to quash the conviction for "slander and insult" of a prominent photographer and documentary filmmaker who has been recording people's...

Amnesty International has today welcomed the disclosure of information detailing the torture of UK resident Binyam Mohamed while in US custody. The Court of Appeal this morning ordered that seven...