Press Releases

Piers Bannister, Amnesty International’s Jamaica researcher said: 'At least 650 people have been killed by police officers in Jamaica since 1999. Many of these have been blatantly unlawful killings...

Problem? What problem?” Amnesty International UK has launched a high-profile poster campaign to tackle complacency surrounding domestic violence in the UK. The innovative campaign uses images of...

Amnesty International has launched its annual 'Greetings Card' campaign to send messages of support to people around the world facing persecution, torture and other human rights abuses. The annual...

The letter warns of a 'vacuum in the substance of the programme as to how the stated ambition [of ensuring the protection of fundamental rights] is to be realised'. Amnesty International’s Open...

The letter was sent as the Joint Select Committee charged with the Bill’s review prepared to table a report in the House of Representatives on Tuesday recommending substantial changes to the draft...

Neither presidential candidate mentioned the issue in three televised presidential debates. The call came as Amnesty International launched a major new 200-page report - Human Dignity Denied: Torture...

Many victims, aged six to over seventy years, have been gang raped by up to twenty-five combatants or taken prisoner and used for months or years as sex slaves. The rapes have often been accompanied...

The Thai authorities today announced that 78 demonstrators died of suffocation after being taken into custody. They have reportedly acknowledged that at least an additional six died of gunshot wounds...

Amnesty International is concerned by reports that members of the youth opposition organization PORA ('It is time') are being subjected to arbitrary arrest and harassment for the legitimate exercise...

For the past two days hundreds of people have been protesting in the centre of Minsk against the results of parliamentary elections and a controversial referendum that lifted restrictions on President...