Press releases in 2001

'While all eyes are turned towards Jakarta, the Indonesian security forces are intensifying their repressive approach in Aceh, and peaceful political activists in Papua are being silenced behind...

'The Liberian authorities have a track record of silencing critics. Journalists and human rights defenders are frequently arrested, ill-treated, charged with criminal offences, threatened or forced...

'Thematic experts were introduced to tackle grave human rights violations such as torture, 'disappearances', and violence against Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights, yet they...

'The findings of the investigations are illustrative of a pattern of police abuses reported in previous years by the organization when law enforcement officers violated the rights of those engaged in...

Mr Sané will be leading a delegation of Amnesty International representatives visiting Mexico City between 13 and 16 March. The delegation has requested to meet with President Vicente Fox Quesada and...

Responding to reports of this afternoon's ruling by the Chilean Appeals Court that Augusto Pinochet must stand trial on human rights charges, Amnesty International offered a cautious welcome. Amnesty...

Without prejudging the mandate and terms of reference of this national commission, Amnesty International calls on the Togolese authorities to ensure that any such judicial investigation is conducted...

'The perpetrators are agents of the state and armed groups, but most often they are members of their own family, community or employers. For many Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

Amnesty International UK Communications Director Richard Bunting said: 'Amnesty International has documented a frightening pattern of violence by the Zimbabwean Government against its critics in...

However, Amnesty International is concerned that tens of thousands of civilians displaced by the violence are without basic humanitarian assistance. 'We call on Burundi's military and civilian...