Press Releases

Junta must ensure help goes to all victims irrespective of race, colour or creed Following the impact of Cyclone Nargis on Burma, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around a...

Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal for a university professor in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 150 lashes and eight months’ imprisonment for meeting a woman in a coffee shop...

Amnesty International today released a report revealing the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia. The report contains first-hand testimony from scores of traumatised...

Releases come shortly after new anti-‘waterboarding’ film denounces torture Following the release of nine detainees from the US-run military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International has...

Report calls for halt to all executions amid ‘lethal lottery’ Publishing the first ever large-scale study into India’s use of the death penalty, Amnesty International has revealed a system riddled...

Peaceful protestors held despite being over 1,000 miles away from relay route In yet another bitter twist in Vietnam’s pattern of repressing legitimate and peaceful dissent, the country’s authorities...

With 100 days to go until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today launched the first in a series of four hard-hitting animated films highlighting human rights abuses linked to the Chinese...

Police in Mozambique are killing and torturing people with near total impunity according to an Amnesty International report published today. Amnesty International’s Africa Deputy Programme Director...

Human rights situation will remain bleak if coalition fails to act within deadline Amnesty International today made a call to the new Pakistan government to immediately reinstate around 60 senior...

Amnesty International has just received information that at about 10 am (local time) today, five police officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) raided the...