Press Releases
Amnesty International today called on the authorities in Urumqi to immediately launch an independent and impartial investigation into reports that 140 people were killed when a protest turned violent...
The ethnic identity of Uighurs in western China is being systematically eroded. Government policies, including those that limit use of the Uighur language, severe restrictions on freedom of religion...
Amnesty International has welcomed the historical decision by the high court in Delhi to decriminalise homosexuality. The decision is a significant step toward ensuring that people in India can...
More than two million people who have fled fighting in northwestern Pakistan do not have access to aid distributed in official displacement camps, Amnesty International warned today. Ethnic Pashtuns...
Representatives from Amnesty International, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) will this afternoon petition the Gambian High Commission in London to put a stop...
Amnesty International today (3 July) welcomed the Home Office’s agreement to issue a travel document to Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a stateless Palestinian refugee who is under a Control Order. Subject to the...
Call for Goldstone United Nations inquiry to be supported Israeli forces killed hundreds of unarmed Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of homes in Gaza in attacks which breached the laws of...
Amnesty International today said that Honduran President Manuel Zelaya must be able to return to Honduras immediately, without conditions and safely. Kerrie Howard, Americas Deputy director at Amnesty...
Amnesty challenges new Shell CEO to make good in his first 100 days “If you want to go fishing, you have to paddle for about four hours through several rivers before you can get to where you can catch...
Ongoing human rights abuses in Chechnya, Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus “lend the lie” to claims made by the Russia authorities that the region is generally reverting to “normal”...