Press Releases
Amnesty International announces the launch of its Edinburgh Festival programme today (30 July) with the release of the first in a series of Festival video podcasts (vodcasts) and podcasts. Free to...
Accused’s lawyer has survived an attempt on his life; family forced to flee Younis Masih, a Pakistani Christian, has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pakistan. His family have been threatened...
Amnesty International today condemned the UK government's proposal to extend the period for which people can be detained by the police under terrorism legislation to 56 days. Nicola Duckworth...
Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who have organised and demonstrated against human rights abuses, forced evictions and food shortages in Zimbabwe have been subjected to...
Amnesty International today welcomed the release of 38 Ethiopian opposition party officials, a human rights defender and four journalists, who had been detained since November 2005. They were pardoned...
Amnesty International has expressed dismay at the life sentences handed down yesterday (16 July) to 30 Ethiopian opposition party leaders, journalists and one of the country's most prominent human...
Amnesty International has just learned that 18-year-old musician Sina Paymard, who was sentenced to death in Iran for a crime committed when he was just 16 years old, may be executed within the next...
A year on from the start of last year’s 34-day war between Hizbullah and Israel, Amnesty International today condemned the complete absence of any steps in the two countries affected or...
Amnesty International, the AIRE Centre, The International Commission of JURISTs, Interights and REDRESS are warning that, in a hearing today, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is...
Man already reportedly stoned to death last week Amnesty International has issued an ‘urgent action’ appeal on behalf of a woman in Iran who is facing imminent death by stoning for adultery. This...