October 2010

Amnesty International is calling on the Italian authorities to investigate urgently whether 68 people rescued at sea and then forcibly returned to Egypt within 48 hours were given the opportunity to apply for international protection. Posted: 29 Oct 2010

Amnesty International is calling on the Egyptian authorities to release or charge all detained supporters of opposition groups ahead of next month's parliamentary elections, following a new wave of arrests. Posted: 29 Oct 2010

Plans for urban development of waterfront areas in the Rivers State capital of Port Harcourt, Nigeria are being developed at the expense of making more than 200,000 people homeless, warns Amnesty International in a new report released today [28 Oct]. Posted: 28 Oct 2010

Amnesty International has called on the King of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a young Sri Lankan woman who has lost her appeal against a death sentence for a murder committed when allegedly she was 17 years old. Posted: 28 Oct 2010

Amnesty International today called on the Iraqi authorities not to execute former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz and two other former officials sentenced to death by a Baghdad court. Posted: 27 Oct 2010

Responding to reports that a UK company supplied the drug used as part of the lethal injection in the execution earlier today of Jeffrey Landrigan, a prisoner in the state of Arizona in the United States, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: Posted: 27 Oct 2010

Amnesty International has called on the US authorities to address any human rights violations committed against Canadian national Omar Khadr, in spite of him pleading guilty to the charges against him at a military commission at the Guantnamo Bay detention centre. Posted: 26 Oct 2010

Amnesty International today called on the USA to investigate how much US officials knew about the torture and other ill-treatment of detainees held by Iraqi security forces after new evidence emerged in files released by the WikiLeaks organisation late on Friday. Posted: 23 Oct 2010

Amnesty International has welcomed the Indian government's decision to reject plans for the expansion of an alumina refinery by a subsidiary of UK-based Vedanta Resources, in the state of Orissa. Posted: 22 Oct 2010

Amnesty International is calling on the new mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, to protect the right to peaceful assembly after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the city's recent banning of Pride marches was discriminatory. Posted: 22 Oct 2010

Amnesty International has called for a thorough evaluation of the Strathclyde taser pilot which went ahead despite legal advice that the pilot was unlawful. Posted: 21 Oct 2010

More than one year after reaching an out-of-court settlement with the oil-trading company Trafigura over waste dumping in Cote dIvoire thousands of victims are still waiting to receive their compensation money. Posted: 21 Oct 2010

On Wednesday 27th October, Amnesty International and Sandstone Press will launch The Long Bridge by Urszula Muskus, an autobiographical novel spanning 16 years from the invasion of Poland, through imprisonment in Russian gulags and exile within Siberia. Posted: 21 Oct 2010

Institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland is not just an historic issue, but must be addressed for the many hundreds still living with the trauma today and for the protection of those children still at risk of abuse. That is the message from Colm O'Gorman, executive director of Amnesty International Ireland, ahead of a major speech in Belfast. Posted: 20 Oct 2010

Amnesty International today called on the Egyptian authorities to immediately release, or charge with a recognisable criminal offence, more than 70 members of the Muslim Brotherhood group arrested this week. Posted: 19 Oct 2010

The Indonesian government should initiate an independent investigation into reports of torture and other ill-treatment in Papua over the last two years, Amnesty International said today. Posted: 19 Oct 2010

Amnesty International today urged the Foreign Secretary William Hague to demand an independent international investigation into alleged war crime abuses in Sri Lanka when he meets his Sri Lankan counterpart, Professor GL Peiris, tomorrow. Posted: 18 Oct 2010

Amnesty International is today urging the Indian government to end the routine torture of those held by police and prison authorities by ensuring the countrys new Prevention of Torture Bill meets international standards before adopting it. Posted: 15 Oct 2010

Amnesty International has today urged the Israeli authorities to abandon plans to construct 238 new housing units in Israeli settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. Posted: 15 Oct 2010

Amnesty International and iceandfire are to present the top choices from entries to this years international human rights playwriting competition. Posted: 14 Oct 2010