Press Releases

Joint statement from REDRESS, Amnesty International and Justice Today is a sad day for British justice. The UK’s highest court gave complete immunity to the Saudi torturers of four UK citizens...

Family and Lib Dem MP issue fresh call for action over London residents Bisher al-Rawi and Jamil el-Banna, still held at Guantánamo Amnesty International today (14 June) issued a call for an...

Joint statement from Redress, Amnesty International and Justice Today is a sad day for British justice. The UK’s highest court gave complete immunity to the Saudi torturers of four UK citizens who...

Amnesty International has called for a fully independent investigation led by civilians into the recent deaths of three Guantánamo detainees after apparent suicides. The organisation also called on...

Camp must be closed and suicide investigation made public Responding to yesterday’s reports of the death of three men at the US military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International...

A group of 231 ethnic Hmong Laotian refugees, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights, were reportedly arrested on 5 June in northern Thailand. They...

An HIV/AIDS activist has been receiving anonymous death threats, apparently because of his outspoken criticism of the government's failure to provide adequate treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS...

China is fast emerging as one of the world’s biggest, most secretive and irresponsible arms exporters, according to a new report issued today by Amnesty International. The report shows how Chinese...

Amnesty International has responded to a statement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin that the company had compromised its principles by launching a censored search engine in China. An Amnesty...

Amnesty International has welcomed the new Council of Europe report into “renditions”, saying that the report confirms the human rights organisation’s own findings that several cases of rendition have...