Press Releases
Ex-president Jean-Claude Duvalier’s human rights record must face scrutiny Spokespeople available for comment Amnesty International today urged the Haitian authorities to bring former president Jean...
On Thursday 27 January at 6.30 for 7.00 pm, Amnesty International will host the launch of Ricin: The Inside Story of the Terror Plot That Never Was , a new book from the foreman of the jury in the...
NUJ members in Northern Ireland are being urged to enter the Amnesty International Media Awards 2011. Irish Executive Council member Michael Fisher (and National Executive Council member Bob Miller)...
Photo opportunity: Amnesty to hand over thousands of signatures demanding justice for Dr Binayak Sen Where: Indian Consulate, 17 Rutland Square, Edinburgh EH1 2BB When: 1-1.30pm, Wednesday 19 January...
Amnesty International has urged the United Nations not to help fugitives from international justice after a Sudanese official wanted for war crimes in Darfur was provided with a helicopter to fly to a...
‘We expect the Tunisian authorities to repeal the draconian restrictions on freedom of expression’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Amnesty International has reiterated its call on the Tunisian authorities to...
The Tunisian authorities must either release or promptly charge two men arrested after one of them gave media interviews about the ongoing protests, Amnesty International said today. Hamma Hammami...
Responding to Blakk Rasta’s homophobic comments on GhanaMusic.com, Clare Bracey, Amnesty International UK’s LGBT campaign manager, said: “To describe homosexuality as a ‘disorder’ is simply abhorrent...
Please note the following correction Mamadou Koné one of the victims named in an earlier version of this press release, should read Coulibaly Kassoum as amended here. Amnesty International has warned...
Amnesty International today called for the unconditional release of 16 Belarusian activists and journalists charged with ‘organising mass disorder’ following a post-election demonstration in December...