September 2007

A demonstration in solidarity with the peaceful protestors in Burma will be staged in Belfast this Saturday. Posted: 28 Sep 2007

Amnesty International has sent an open letter to members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in New York today urging them to take prompt and effective action to protect the right to peaceful demonstration in Burma. Posted: 27 Sep 2007

Amnesty international has today (26 September 2007) called for the United Nations to urgently intervene in the growing crisis in Burma, including by sending a delegation to the troubled country. Posted: 26 Sep 2007

Amnesty International welcomes the Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde's announcement that there will be no deployment of Tasers in Northern Ireland until human rights and equality concerns are met. Posted: 26 Sep 2007

With fears growing over how the Myanmar (Burmese) military government will react to the growing calls for democracy, Amnesty has voiced fresh concern that Northern Ireland companies could be helping to arm the Myanmar government. Posted: 26 Sep 2007

Military commissions should be dropped, including for detainee held since age of 15 Posted: 25 Sep 2007

The Iraqi refugee crisis is reaching breaking point, said a new Amnesty International report today following a research mission to Syria and Jordan which host the bulk of Iraq's refugees. Posted: 24 Sep 2007

Yoko Ono will visit Amnesty International's global headquarters in London on 24 September to celebrate the success of a double CD of classic John Lennon songs released earlier this year to raise money for Amnesty and to help focus attention on the human rights crisis in Darfur. Posted: 24 Sep 2007

Responding to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's conference speech today, Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director, speaking from Bournemouth, said: Posted: 24 Sep 2007

Thomas Arthur set for 27 September execution A man in the state of Alabama in the United States is facing execution in a week's time despite claims that DNA tests could cast doubt on the safety of his capital conviction. Posted: 20 Sep 2007

The UK, the world's third largest user of lethal cluster bombs over the last ten years, has renamed one of its two remaining cluster munitions in an effort to beat an expected worldwide ban next year said humanitarian organisations Oxfam, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Landmine Action today. Posted: 20 Sep 2007

Amnesty International is deeply disturbed by video footage showing a student being Tasered by police during a meeting held by US Senator John Kerry at the University of Florida yesterday. Posted: 19 Sep 2007

Posted: 19 Sep 2007

Amnesty International UK and other anti-death penalty campaigners have welcomed today's announcement that Kenny Richey, a Scottish man on death row in Ohio, is to be moved off death row and placed in a county jail in the state. Posted: 18 Sep 2007

Northern Irish company cited as European contact for sale of illegal electro-shock batons Amnesty International today (17 Sept) called for tougher controls on arms exports as it launched the first investigative report into Northern Ireland's role in the global arms and security trade. Posted: 17 Sep 2007

On the eve of the fourth Global Day of Action for Darfur, Amnesty International has asked the UK Government to apply every effort to securing peace in the region of Darfur. Posted: 17 Sep 2007

'In Prison My Whole Life' will screen during London Film Festival A new documentary film on the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal will screen at the London Film Festival next month. The film has the support of Amnesty International as part of its international campaign to abolish the death penalty. Posted: 13 Sep 2007

Tiananmen Square hero Shao Jiang will address a special conference in Belfast this Saturday 15 September, highlighting serious human rights abuses in China ahead of the 2008 Olympic Games. Posted: 13 Sep 2007

Nooses in 'whites only' area of school and all-white jury trial spark concerns over discriminatory justice Amnesty International has written to the US Justice Department to express concern at claims that charges filed against six black high school students in Jena, Louisiana (known as the 'Jena Six') reflected a pattern of discriminatory treatment of black and white youths in the town. Posted: 13 Sep 2007

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness will today meet with Amnesty International to discuss China's poor human rights record, amid proposals to open a Chinese consular office in Belfast. Posted: 12 Sep 2007