Press Releases

In a letter to the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Irene Khan, warned that the UK may become a safe haven to people who have committed genocide. The letter...

Amnesty International researchers have given Derry City Airport the “all-clear” over accusations that rendition flights landed there, after Amnesty Foyle group members were given access to flight...

Over 1,000 families in the southern and south-eastern regions of Brazil’s Pará state are facing imminent forced eviction following a court order obtained by state authorities. The state court ordered...

The investigation carried out by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) into the recent air-missile attack on Qana In Lebanon was clearly inadequate and reinforces the need for an urgent dispatch of an...

The UK Working Group on Arms (UKWG) (1) welcomes the call to tighten UK arms exports made by MPs in the Commons Quadripartite Committee. The Committee's report (2) published today criticises existing...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery… Amnesty takes over the Fringe programme! Where: The World Famous Spiegeltent, George Square Gardens, Edinburgh When: Wednesday 2nd August, 11.30am What...

Call for war crimes investigation The devastating attack on Qana makes clear that an immediate and full ceasefire is urgently needed. Measures taken by Israel to temporarily suspend air-strikes over...

Amnesty International Scotland today (31 July) raised its concerns for the health and well being of Kenny Richey, the Scot on Death Row in Ohio. After nineteen and a half years awaiting execution...

Ashraf Kolhari, a mother of four Children's rights between the ages of nine and nineteen, is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery. She has received the order for the implementation of...

Amnesty International has written to UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett expressing its grave concern about the continuing transfer of weapons from the US, via the UK, to arm the conflict in Israel...