Press releases in 2000

'I lost consciousness two times during the interrogation. When I recovered they continued to apply two electric wires to different parts of my body. The guards found a box of painkillers in my pocket...

'This clumsy attempt to silence local and foreign journalists adds to the Belarusian government's already embarassing record on human rights ', Amnesty International added. The Russian embassy in...

Ankara State Prosecutor today rejected Akin Birdal's lawyer's application for his sentence to be postponed again on medical grounds. A medical report issued by Ankara State Hospital on 22 March 2000...

Every day, terror and injustice are suffered by people in Saudi Arabia but the world's governments appear indifferent to their plight, Amnesty International said today as it launched its first...

Sunday's decision by Kuwait's Misdemeanours Appeal Court upheld charges of breaching public decency and using profane and impious language made against Laila al-Othman, but converted the two-month...

'We firmly support all efforts to bring the perpetrators of Guatemala's agony to justice,' added the organisation, which has been monitoring the human rights situation in Guatemala for many years. The...

The announcement came within hours of a joint press conference in Manila by the Coalition against the Death Penalty , attended by representatives of Amnesty International, members of the Catholic...

Amnesty International has received disturbing testimony from a survivor of the Chernokozovo 'filtration camp' that detainees, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and...

Monsignor Romero's criticisms of the human rights violations being perpetrated in El Salvador at the time and his commitment to defending human rights led to his violent and untimely death. As in the...

Supported by eyewitness reports and medical evidence, detainees have reported being repeatedly kicked, punched, kneed, beaten with truncheons and sprayed with pepper after restraint. The victims are...