Press Releases

Amnesty International has condemned the Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde's decision to introduce Tasers in Northern Ireland despite not meeting human rights and equality standards as set down by the...

Paralysed prisoners in ‘chemical straitjackets’ unable to move or cry out during execution Amnesty International has called for doctors and other medical personnel to stop taking part in lethal...

Amnesty International has condemned the Taleban’s hanging of a 15-year-old boy, supposedly for “spying”. The killing, of a boy named Zainullah, occurred on 30 September, when he taken from a bazaar...

Responding to the news that an Ohio judge in the United States has set Scotsman Kenny Richey's bail at $10 million, Amnesty International's Scottish Programme Director John Watson said: "Obviously it...

We welcome this crackdown but victims have to be better protected, says Amnesty In response to the launch today (3 October 2007) of Operation Pentameter 2, the new government initiative to crack down...

Call for peaceful protestors to be freed – and for Louise Arbour to visit Amnesty International today (2 October) urged the United Nations Human Rights Council to urgently address the situation in...

United Nations Security Council must act immediately Amnesty International is today (1 October 2007) urging the United Nations Security Council to immediately impose a comprehensive and mandatory arms...

Leading campaign groups today (1 October) welcomed the Companies Act (that becomes law on October 1), but called on Gordon Brown to make sure that the act is the first step to further reforms on the...

Bydd cyfarfod heddiw (2 Hydref) yng Nghynulliad Cenedlaethol Cymru yn clywed stori ddirdynnol actifydd iawnderau dynol flaenllaw o Tsieina. Bydd Rebiya Kadeer, dynes fusnes a chynrychiolydd y...

Saddam’s ‘preferred group’ perception leading to abduction, mutilation and death Palestinian refugees living in Iraq are the hidden victims of the Iraq conflict, said Amnesty International today (1...