JK Rowling’s sexual violence support centre demands apology from Amnesty

The briefing issued last week by Amnesty – entitled “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK” – also listed the campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought the legal case that culminated in the UK Supreme Court ruling that “woman” refers to biological sex for the purposes of equalities law.

The Amnesty report said the ruling had contributed to a “significant decline in protection for LGBT+ rights”.

In a statement announcing it was removing the list, Amnesty said it regretted that the briefing was uploaded to its website without going through the established internal review processes.

“Its use of language does not reflect the position of Amnesty International UK which is why it was promptly removed,” it said.

Now a letter sent to Amnesty by lawyers for Beira’s Place has been shared on X by Rowling in which they outline how they consider the report to be defamatory.

It says the claims that it is “targeting the rights of women or LGBT people” is entirely false and deeply damaging to its reputation.

The letter threatens court action and calls for Amnesty to permanently withdrawn the report and not repeat what it considers to be the defamatory comments made in it.

It also demands a public letter of apology to be printed on the front page of the Amnesty website saying that the “anti rights” claims are without foundation and deeply damaging.

The letter also calls for an external investigation into how a report in Amnesty’s name could contain such “egregious falsehoods”.