Press Releases

Amnesty International has obtained video footage that the organisation believes points to a ”shoot-to-kill” policy being used by the Syrian security forces to quell reform protests. The footage...

The world’s best known political prisoner pays tribute to the world’s largest human rights organisation and looks forward to the day Amnesty no longer exists Amnesty International, the world’s largest...

‘ It was a vintage year for human rights journalism ’ - Kate Allen Northern Ireland journalist Eamonn McCann has been victorious at the Amnesty International Media Awards, collecting a human rights...

Forces allied to both former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo and incumbent Alassane Ouattara committed war crimes and crimes against humanity during six months of deadly violence following...

Amnesty International has warned that anti-personnel mines could litter the Libyan coastal town of Misratah, amid new evidence that Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi’s forces placed them in residential areas...

‘These two men have been trapped in a judicial vortex’ - Nicola Duckworth

‘It was a vintage year for human rights journalism’ - Kate Allen Amnesty International UK has announced the winners of its prestigious annual media awards, this year celebrating its 20th year. The...

Top UK journalists will tonight (24 May) join together in a ‘mass tweet’ to the President of Azerbaijan, urging President Aliyev to immediately and unconditionally release jailed newspaper editor...

Amnesty International is concerned by the Iranian government’s continuing clampdown on dissent, including arbitrary arrests and the torture or other ill-treatment of people who express views opposed...

Authorities in Jamaica must bring to justice those responsible for the human rights violations during an operation to arrest a suspected gang leader in Tivoli Gardens last year, which resulted in the...