News & Blog

Press Release

“Death Sentences” Against Three Foreign Members of Ukrainian Forces by Separatists’ “Courts” a Blatant Violation of International Law

Responding to the news that a separatist “court” in Russia-occupied Donetsk ordered the death of two captured two British nationals…

June 9, 2022

Press Release

Release municipal councilor put on trial for criticizing Russian aggression in Ukraine

Hearings have begun today in the case against Aleksei Gorinov, a Moscow municipal councilor who was charged with disseminating “knowingly…

June 1, 2022

KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

In Russia, Educators Fired, Students Indoctrinated – Academia is the Latest Victim of the Ongoing Crackdown

The Russian authorities must immediately end their assault on academic freedom and the right to freedom of expression, Amnesty International…

May 11, 2022

Olga Ivashchenko/Amnesty International

Sheet of paper Report

Russian Forces Must Face Justice for War Crimes in Kyiv Oblast – New Investigation

Russian forces must face justice for a series of war crimes committed in the region northwest of Kyiv, Amnesty International…

May 6, 2022

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

Prominent Russian Opposition Activist Faces Up to 15 Years in Prison for Sharing Information About the War in Ukraine 

Responding to a new criminal investigation launched against Vladimir Kara-Murza, a member of the political opposition and critic of the…

April 22, 2022

Press Release

Amnesty International USA Welcomes “Uniting for Ukraine” But Urges Administration To Do More to Protect Ukrainians and All People Fleeing Conflict

Amnesty International USA welcomes the Biden administration’s initial efforts to welcome Ukrainians through a special parole program, and we urge…

April 21, 2022

Illustration: Listock.ru

Press Release

Release Russian Journalists Detained Over Critical Coverage of Ukraine Invasion

Responding to the news that Russian authorities have detained an editor-in-chief and a founder of local newspaper from the Russian…

April 14, 2022

Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

Artist Detained in Russia Amid Clampdown on Anti-War Feminists 

The Vasileostrovsky District Court in Saint Petersburg today placed Aleksandra Skochilenko, an activist who replaced price tags in supermarkets with anti-war slogans, into…

April 13, 2022

Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

New Evidence of Abuses in Poland & Belarus Highlights ‘Hypocrisy’ of Unequal Treatment of Asylum-Seekers

The Polish authorities have arbitrarily detained nearly two thousand asylum-seekers who crossed into the country from Belarus in 2021, and…

April 10, 2022

Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

Authorities Close Down Amnesty International’s Moscow Office

Today, the Russian authorities have closed down representative offices of Amnesty International and other international NGOs. Reacting to the news,…

April 8, 2022

Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Press Release

Russian Forces Extrajudicially Executing Civilians in Ukraine in Apparent War Crimes – New Testimony

Russian military forces have extrajudicially executed civilians in Ukraine in apparent war crimes, Amnesty International said today as it published…

April 7, 2022

Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images

Press Release

Apparent War Crimes by Russian Forces in Bucha, Ukraine Must Be Investigated

Following reports of apparent war crimes committed by Russian military forces against civilians in Bucha, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty…

April 4, 2022