Press releases in 2000

The organisation raised a number of concerns about the Zimbabwean government's failure to condemn clearly and publicly acts of violence allegedly perpetrated by government supporters, which are having...

Amnesty International has recorded 44 ' disappearances ' since the beginning of 1998 alone - 18 of which occurred during 1999 - and there is evidence that detainees have been held incommunicado in...

On 31 March the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan reversed the death sentence passed last year on a young musician named Arsen Arutyunyan, citing mitigating factors and replacing it with a...

'We appeal to the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group not to use innocent Children's rights and other civilians as pawns in their month long stand-off with the government. The taking and killing of...

Victor Bourne was fatally shot by two members of the Quick Reaction Group* at his home in Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, on June 19 1998 (see Amnesty International's Annual Report for...

44 year-old Robert Glen Coe - who has a long history of mental illness and suffered a childhood marked by his father's sexual and physical violence - is scheduled to be executed at 1.00a.m. local time...

'The decision on the part of the authorities to try the men in a group of such a size not only risks infringing their right to a fair trial as individuals but also to the presumption of innocence,'...

Amnesty International stressed that the figures released today only include cases known to the organisation. 'It is impossible to give a complete total because many countries deliberately keep the...

Describing those who have been banished because of their legitimate trade union work and have not resorted to violence as prisoners of conscience the human rights organisation requested that they be...

On 27 March 2000 the government of Trinidad and Tobago lodged its withdrawal from the first Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This measure will take effect...