Press Releases
Human rights ‘hang in the balance’ Commenting on the NATO summit on Afghanistan set to begin in Strasbourg today, Amnesty International Asia Pacific Programme Director Sam Zarifi, said: “This really...
Some 450 human rights activists will visit Swansea this weekend to attend the United Kingdom AGM of Amnesty International. Hosted by Swansea University, grass roots activists from across the UK will...
Sichuan environmental activist and writer Tan Zuoren was detained on 28 March by the police in Chengdu, Sichuan province on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power”. He is now detained at...
A new report from Amnesty International reveals today that allegations of beatings, racial abuse, excessive force and even unlawful killings by French police are rarely investigated effectively and...
Amnesty International today called on the North Korean government to release two US journalists held at a detention facility in Pyongyang, unless it can guarantee that they are prosecuted for...
67-year-old human rights chief thrown to ground, kicked and beaten by gang after YUKOS concerns raised An assault yesterday on Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev has been condemned by Amnesty...
Bodies set ablaze with note saying: “This is revenge on state officials” Amnesty International today called for an immediate end to a recent wave of brutal attacks against civilians by armed...
The new delivery to Israel of a massive consignment of US munitions, revealed by Amnesty International today, throws into question whether President Obama will act to prevent the US fuelling further...
Amnesty makes appeal for access Amnesty International has expressed serious concern about the safety and welfare of a British woman who has apparently been apprehended by members of the Syrian...
‘Blanket amnesties … are an additional wound inflicted on the victim’ Ahead of next week’s presidential elections in Algeria, Amnesty International has today (30 March) called on the next president to...