September 2003

Posted: 26 Sep 2003

A gay man in the US state of North Carolina is due to be executed by lethal injection on Friday 3 October despite serious concerns that his sexuality was used against him during his trial as part of the prosecution's bid to obtain the death sentence. Posted: 26 Sep 2003

Posted: 25 Sep 2003

Amnesty International welcomes the decision today (25 Sept) by the Sharia Court of Appeal of Katsina State, northern Nigeria, to quash Amina Lawal’s death by stoning sentence handed down by a Sharia court at Bakori, in Katsina State on 22 March 2002. Posted: 25 Sep 2003

The detentions at Guantánamo Bay and the USA's 'war on terrorism' are fuelling the deteriorating human rights situation in Yemen, said Amnesty International, as it published a new report on the country today (24 September 2003). Posted: 24 Sep 2003

Amnesty international is calling on the Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to avert a worsening human rights situation by allowing full investigations into recent prison deaths in the country and ending a reported wave of arrests - including detentions of children. Posted: 23 Sep 2003

Posted: 22 Sep 2003

Amnesty International today condemned the government-appointed Malimath Committee's recommendations to the Indian government on criminal justice reform as dangerous. The human rights organisation said the proposals threatened to increase incidences of torture, unfair trials and discriminatory treatment of the poor, women and minorities if implemented. Posted: 19 Sep 2003

Amnesty International is deeply concerned for the safety of 57 boy and girl members of minority Christian churches being held in metal shipping containers at Sawa military camp in western Eritrea. Posted: 19 Sep 2003

Amnesty International is calling for an urgent investigation into allegations that soldiers of the UN peacekeeping force (known as MONUC) in Democratic Republic of Congo have arrested and tortured three people in the east of the country. Posted: 19 Sep 2003

Ahead of the publication later today (18 Sept) of the government's annual human rights report, Amnesty International said that the government's human rights performance should be judged by the UK's actions on human rights and not by words alone. Posted: 18 Sep 2003

Posted: 18 Sep 2003

Posted: 18 Sep 2003

Posted: 18 Sep 2003

Reacting to the Foreign Office' publication of its annual human rights report this afternoon, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said:"While the Foreign Office has done valuable work on combating torture and use of the death penalty - and the annual report is itself an important contribution to human rights debate, the fact is that the government has been disappointing on crucial human rights issues in the past year. Posted: 18 Sep 2003

London and New York, September 17, 2003 The Vietnamese government should immediately release Thich Tri Luc, a Buddhist monk who was arrested and forcibly repatriated to Viet Nam after receiving refugee status in Cambodia, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. Posted: 17 Sep 2003

Posted: 16 Sep 2003

Posted: 16 Sep 2003

Amnesty International is calling for urgent action to protect the key witness in the prosecution of a police officer who is alleged to have murdered a transsexual sex worker, known as 'Ericka', in San Pedro Sula, Honduras in July. Posted: 15 Sep 2003

Releasing a new report on Turkmenistan today (12 September 2003), Amnesty International condemned the country's human rights record as "appalling" and noted that while the Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov maintained a political personality cult, human rights abuses had markedly increased following an alleged assassination attempt on the president last November. Posted: 12 Sep 2003