Press Releases

Amnesty International has today launched a hard-hitting online film about torture, showing activists intervening to prevent a torture victim being further abused. The 90-second film, entitled “Defy...

Amnesty International has warned that the lives of nine activists working for two prominent human rights organisations in Guatemala are at risk after they received dozens of death threats by text...

Amnesty International today expressed dismay at the decision by Nigeria’s Imo State House of Assembly to pass a bill allowing the death penalty to be imposed on those convicted of kidnapping or whose...

BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight programme has been shortlisted for a prestigious Amnesty International Media Award. The programme, Prisoner B2970, told the shocking story of the death by suicide of...

Northumberland’s award-winning Children's rights’s author David Almond is one of 14 well-known writers who has contributed to Amnesty International’s new anthology of Children's rights’s stories...

The Iranian authorities must halt the execution of two juvenile offenders due to be executed today (6 May), Amnesty International said today. The scheduled executions come just six days after Iran’s...

Speaking at a gathering of anti-death penalty protestors outside the Iranian embassy in London today, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said: “The earth on Delara Darabi's grave has...

Amnesty International called for the immediate and unconditional release or prompt and fair trial of 18 human rights and political activists detained yesterday, just two months after they were...

New White Ribbon Scotland website launched at STUC congress. Hollywood star Brian Cox today urged Scottish men to do more in tackling Scotland’s shameful record on violence against Women's rights's...

Amnesty International UK today announced the shortlists for its prestigious annual Media Awards. The awards recognise excellence in human rights reporting and acknowledge journalism’s significant...