Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Amnesty reveals one of the festival's strongest line-ups for Wednesday comedy gig

Amnesty International today revealed it’s near-complete line-up of great comedy names for the Stand Up For Freedom show at the Assembly Hall, at midnight on 19 August. One final, award-winning special...

Amnesty announces 'world's top intellectual coming to Belfast

Amnesty International has announced that one of the world’s leading intellectuals, Professor Noam Chomsky, will come to Belfast on 30 October to give the organisation’s annual lecture at the Ulster...

Mexico: Woman accused of kidnapping six agents named Amnesty prisoner of conscience

Amnesty International today [Tues 18 Aug] adopted 46-year-old Jacinta Marcial as a prisoner of conscience for being unfairly sentenced to 21 years in prison and demanded that the Mexican authorities...

Afghanistan: Journalists threatened by both government and Taleban in lead-up to elections

* Journalists from 13 Afghan provinces report government intimidation Ahead of the Afghan presidential elections (20 August), journalists from 13 provinces in Afghanistan have told Amnesty...

Amnesty campaigners in Northern Ireland: Amnesty: Aung San Suu Kyi trial a 'farce', verdict a 'sick joke'

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi’s immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International campaigners in Northern Ireland as "a...

Burma: Amnesty labels Aung San Suu Kyi's sentence as 'shameful'

Call for Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate release. Today’s guilty verdict against Aung San Suu Kyi by a court in Burma has been described by Amnesty International’s Secretary General Irene Khan as...

Chechnya: New killings condemned

‘It is critically important … that the authorities fully investigate these crimes’ Amnesty International called for an end to impunity for the murder of human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers...

China: Free Sichuan earthquake activists

On the eve of the scheduled trial of Tan Zuoren on charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, Amnesty International urges the Chinese authorities to drop the politically-motivated prosecution...

Iraq: Response to Danny Fitzsimons case

Responding to reports that a British employee of a security company working in Iraq may face a death sentence, Amnesty International UK Media Director Mike Blakemore said: “It’s right that private...

Sri Lanka: Amnesty calls for detention camps to be unlocked

Equivalent of Bournemouth’s population live, eat and sleep in area size of Wembley Stadium Amnesty International today called for the immediate release of 285,000 innocent civilians - including an...