Press Releases
Rock band R.E.M will release a cover version of the John Lennon classic #9 Dream for Amnesty International tomorrow. The song is one of more than 20 of the former Beatle’s iconic songs being re...
Amnesty International and east London-based theatre company, iceandfire have launched a new competition that offers all writers and storytellers the opportunity to write plays based around experiences...
Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan today urged Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to work in collaboration with newly-elected Governors José Serra of São Paulo and Sergio...
Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of over 30 Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights activists who were arrested on Sunday, 4 March...
Reacting to today's verdict in the case of Agustín Aguayo a, US army medic sentenced by US court martial to eight months in prison, for his refusal to participate in the war in Iraq as a conscientious...
Amnesty International raises concerns about crackdown on press freedom Amnesty International is extremely concerned about a new crackdown on press freedom in Sri Lanka, following the detention on...
The millions of migrant labourers who are fuelling China's economic growth are treated as an urban underclass, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Despite recent reforms, they are shut...
Equipment used for torture – including wall handcuffs and spiked batons known as ‘sting sticks’ – could still be traded out of the EU, said Amnesty International today as a new report condemned new EU...
Amnesty International said that today's application by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue summonses to two people suspected of crimes against humanity and war crimes in...
Responding to today’s Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) ruling regarding Abu Qatada, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “Deporting Abu Qatada to Jordan will put...