Press Releases
Amnesty International highlights two cases of severe human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia As King Abdullah begins his second day of his UK state visit, Amnesty International has urged the UK Government...
Gays rights conference attacked by smoke bombs after rally was banned Amnesty International is deeply concerned by yesterday’s attacks on the gay community in Vilnius, which saw the mayor ban a rally...
From 29 to 31 October the highest court in the UK, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, will be hearing the case of R (Hilal Abdul Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence...
Sein Win to face Northern Ireland politicians in historic meeting The head of Burma’s elected “government-in-exile” will make a historic visit to Belfast later today (25 October 2007) to call on the...
Security forces ‘guilty’ of detention, torture and murder of political opponents The government of President Joseph Kabila must launch an urgent and independent investigation into the systematic...
On the eve of the European Union-Russia summit in Portugal on 26 October, Amnesty International is warning the Russian authorities not to repeat mistakes previously made in Chechnya in the...
A senior colleague of the jailed Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will attend First Minister’s Questions at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 25th October and be welcomed by the First...
On the day the United Nations celebrates its 62nd birthday, the leader of the Burmese National League of Democracy will mark her 12th year under house arrest. As Aung San Suu Kyi today enters her 12th...
Call for human rights team to investigate; arms transfer halt call Factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah forces in the Gaza Strip earlier this year left 350 Palestinians dead and has been...
Amnesty International has today called on the government of Sudan to end the obstruction to the speedy deployment of the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), the hybrid UN/AU force...