Press Releases

Line up includes: Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, The Mighty Boosh, Jennifer Saunders, Jon Culshaw, Omid Djalili, Meera Syal and the legendary Chevy Chase. Amnesty International UK today announced the...

Shahla Jahed, a "temporary" wife of Nasser Mohammad-Khani, a former striker for the Iranian national football team and former manager of a team in Tehran, is facing imminent execution in Iran after...

Hizbullah committed serious violations of international humanitarian law - amounting to war crimes - in its deliberate targeting of Israeli civilians during the recent conflict, said Amnesty...

People from South Africa, India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil are joining faith leaders and activists from Amnesty International and Oxfam on 13 September – the Control Arms Day of Action – to call on...

Family and Amnesty International implore President Musharraf to commute sentence as he visits European Parliament in Brussels The family of joint UK-Pakistan national Mirza Tahir Hussain, who is on...

Amnesty to take part in Global Day for Darfur, Sunday 17 September The people of Darfur are effectively being held hostage to the deadlock between the UN, the African Union and the Sudanese government...

The US government must clarify the fate and whereabouts of all people who have been secretly detained and guarantee fair trials for all people in its custody, Amnesty International said today....

Hundreds of thousands still live in sub-standard conditions one year after Operation "Drive out the Rubbish" One year after more than 700,00 people were forcibly evicted from their homes during...

In a new report released today (7 September) Amnesty International criticised the Colombian government for giving a “green light” to attacks against human rights defenders in the country –lawyers...

In a statement published to coincide with today's (7 September) resumption of the Coroner's inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, Amnesty International expressed serious concern that the...