Press Releases

Amnesty International today condemned the death sentence imposed on former Iraqi Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan as a denial of true justice to the victims of Saddam Hussain's rule. Amnesty...

“The Internet is the new front in the battle between those who want to speak out and those who want to stop them” The Internet industry must do more to fight governments’ attempts to repress internet...

End Violence Against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights Campaign Call for more ‘reality on rape’ in television programmes Commenting today on the BBC television ‘rape trial’...

Amnesty International today (10 February 07) called on the international community to provide effective protection and assistance to nearly two million people fleeing Iraq, in what the UN's top...

13 recommendations to next president published Ahead of elections on 11 February, Amnesty International today (8 February) called for the next president of Turkmenistan to end torture and repression...

Amnesty International has condemned Mexico’s public security and criminal justice system for its failures in a new report published today [Wednesday 7 February] and has called on the newly elected...

Amnesty International today (7 February) expressed serious concern over UK plans to forcibly return asylum seekers to Northern Iraq. Many Iraqis are now reportedly being held in detention pending...

Amnesty International today (2 February) warned against extending the period for which people suspected of terrorism offences can be held without charge. Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director...

Upcoming dramatic film based on mass murders of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in Juarez, Mexico New website to galvanise public to act to end femicide Amnesty...

Ahead of the trial of US soldier Ehren Watada - set to start on Monday 5 February - over his refusal to participate in the Iraq war, Amnesty International stated that a guilty verdict would be a...