Press Releases

New report ahead of London conference (27 January) Amnesty International today warned that the government’s heavy-handed response to the threat posed by al-Qa’ida puts Yemen at risk of being locked in...

Amnesty International has written to the Saudi Arabian authorities urging them to ensure that a 13-year-old girl is spared a punishment of public flogging for an assault on her teacher after a dispute...

An Ivorian court decision to transfer £30 million intended for the victims of the Trafigura toxic waste disaster to a group falsely claiming to represent them is a travesty of justice, Amnesty...

“Do you think you’re so brave?... Let’s hope you also go to prison… If you don’t go to prison, we'll kill you.” – Example of a threat made to one human rights defender who has since fled region in...

In a new report published today [21 Jan], Amnesty International has called for arms transfers to Somalia to be suspended until there are adequate safeguards to prevent weapons from being used to...

Amnesty International has called for the immediate and unconditional release of four Vietnamese prisoners of conscience jailed for their peaceful pro-democracy activism. In a trial lasting just one...

Amnesty International today warned the Angolan authorities against a crackdown on human rights activists after several were detained in the Cabinda region in the wake of the 8 January attack on the...

Call for lifting of blockade one year on from end of Operation ‘Cast Lead’ One year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its “suffocating”...

Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to put in place measures for the protection of human rights and the most vulnerable among the survivors of last week’s devastating earthquake. In...

Amnesty International calls on all candidates standing in Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections on Tuesday 26 January to end widespread human rights violations and the culture of impunity that continues...