Press releases in 2000

'The civilian population living in oil fields and surrounding areas has been deliberately targeted for massive human rights abuses - forced displacement, aerial bombardments, strafing villages from...

'These people are fleeing a very volatile situation, where they may potentially be exposed to persecution. It is the responsibility of the authorities of Bahamas to make sure that this is not the case...

'Taking innocent civilians hostage is an appalling abuse of human rights. The actions of the Abu Sayyaf only serve to exacerbate escalating violence in the south of the country,' Amnesty International...

Akbar Ganji faces 10 charges relating to articles he wrote implicating senior Iranian political figures including Hojjatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the 1998 murders of a number of...

The Indian authorities are failing to protect human rights defenders or prevent these human rights abuses. In some cases they are directly responsible for the abuses while in others state agencies...

'The Rwandese Government has taken some steps to tackle the huge number of cases awaiting trial but has still not fulfilled its pledges to release all those against whom there is no evidence or who...

Fresh reports of killings – with two recent deaths of opposition party members in Zimbabwe - only confirm a pattern showing that ongoing violence in Zimbabwe is largely targeted at real or perceived...

Opposition activists and supporters, real or perceived, are being intimidated and attacked, and at least thirteen have been killed, in rural areas by so-called 'war veterans' and other supporters of...

The hearings in the Santiago Court of Appeals are the result of a request by seven human rights lawyers in relation to the case of 19 victims of ' disappearance ' during the 'Caravan of Death'...

'This simply is not enough', Amnesty International said today. 'Only an international investigation can bring perpetrators to account and ensure justice for the victims.' Amnesty International...