Press Releases
The Control Arms campaign: Oxfam International, Amnesty International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) Campaigners around the world are celebrating a significant victory...
Amnesty International has today (26 June) called on Poland and Romania to conduct independent, impartial and thorough investigations into new information concerning CIA “extraordinary rendition”...
Amnesty International is greatly concerned by the continuing threat to the life of Alan Johnston, the BBC News reporter who has been missing for more than 100 days since his abduction in Gaza City on...
Double CD for Amnesty with U2, Avril Lavigne, R.E.M., Aerosmith, Christina Aguilera, Green Day, The Cure, Youssou N’Dour and many others CD to boost Amnesty’s work on crisis in Darfur Some of the...
Today (25 June 2007), after an unconscionable and inordinate delay - more than four years after receipt of many individual files from the Stevens III investigation into matters of collusion in...
Jailed activist Chen Guangcheng has been severely beaten by other prisoners on the orders of prison guards and denied medical treatment, said Amnesty International today (22 June). The organisation...
Reacting to reports that the US administration has postponed a meeting regarding the future of the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, including the possibility of its closure, Amnesty International...
Amnesty International has today called on EU leaders to take action to effectively “ban” rendition flights and secret detentions in a new letter at the start of the EU summit beginning today (21-22...
Edinburgh campaigners will leave the comfort of their homes and beds this evening (22 June) and literally take to the streets to highlight the plight of destitute asylum seekers. Members of the...
The guilty verdicts by the Special Court for Sierra Leone against three senior members of Sierra Leone's feared Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) – while a positive step – should not be the...