Press Releases
An Amnesty International campaigner will make the appeal before the Northern Ireland premiere of ‘Taking Liberties’ at the Queens Film Theatre on Wednesday (23rd August) and will be distributing...
Amnesty International and the Big Issue in Scotland today (20 August) announced the shortlist for the Freedom of Expression Award, which rewards a company whose performance at the Edinburgh Festivals...
Many inmates left for years in filthy overcrowded cells Amnesty International researchers, recently returned from Nigeria, have expressed shock at the prison conditions they witnessed and the...
Amnesty International UK and other anti-death penalty campaigners have welcomed the decision of a court in the USA to overturn - for a second time - the conviction of Kenny Richey, a Scottish man on...
Amnesty International today (9 August) joined in solidarity with approximately 168 million trade unionists globally to call for the immediate and unconditional release of two Iranian trade union...
President Saleh asked ‘to think again’ and spare child offender Amnesty International has today issued an urgent appeal to Yemen's President Saleh to halt the execution of a child offender in Yemen...
The level of threats, intimidation, attacks and killings of activists in Honduras and Guatemala who campaign to defend the rights of marginalised communities is reaching ‘worrying proportions’ said...
NGOs welcome new policy on interpreters, but call for UK action on wider crisis The UK government’s decision to reconsider its refusal to grant special asylum arrangements for Iraqi interpreters...
Launch of ‘Human Rights for China’ campaign Amnesty International has today (7 August) warned that human rights abuses in China are blighting the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as it...
Amnesty International Scotland today (7 August) stepped up its campaign for imprisoned Chinese journalist and poet Shi Tao, as it published a new China report marking ‘one year to go’ until the...