Press Releases

Wassim Tawfiq Abyad was convicted of "habitual debauchery" and sentenced to 15 months imprisonment after using the gaydar.com website to set up a meeting with a man, believed to have been a police...

Over 30 people have been sentenced in Cuba for the peaceful exercise of the rights to freedom of expression and association. The organisation also voiced grave concern at calls for the death penalty...

The organisation is calling for an independent investigation into any violations of the laws of war, and an immediate moratorium the further use of cluster bombs. Despite repeated assurances from US...

Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director, said: 'We have been saying for years that in nearly all cases it is totally inappropriate to lock up often very vulnerable asylum-seekers. These are...

The new booklet summarises existing international law, treaties and codes on human rights relevant to business, and will help those in the bidding for contracts in Iraq ensure they do not become...

Amnesty International is very concerned at reports of further arrests of members of the political opposition this week, following a violent incident last Friday 30 May when at least four people were...

'Their arrest follows on from the detention of hundreds of men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights previously detained after anti-war demonstrations in...

'Defence of the use of cluster bombs in Iraq by minister Geoff Hoon earlier today failed to recognise the well-founded concern that cluster bombs are likely to kill and maim civilian men, Women's...

About 50 people are believed to be aboard the ferry, now drifting in international waters north of the Cuban coast. The hijackers are reportedly demanding extra fuel to continue to the United States...

'In what appears to have been the biggest crackdown in a decade, independent journalists, members of human rights groups, political activists and other perceived dissidents across the country have...