Press releases in 2001

Mohamad Ezam Mohamad Nor was arrested following a report on 4 March in the pro-government newspaper Mingguan Malaysia that he had called for mass protests to overthrow the government. He has denied...

This trial should never have taken place. It forms part of a wave of judicial proceedings against human rights defenders in Morocco and the banned Islamist association al-Adl wa'l-Ihsan (Justice and...

Convicted in 1982 for the murder of David Kinnamon in Las Vegas in 1980, Thomas Nevius has been on death row in Nevada for nearly two decades. Amnesty International's report highlights several...

The government must take all urgent and necessary measures to address the concerns of the people, the media and civil society in Cameroon and to guarantee that they freely express themselves on the...

'Too often, police officers and prison guards, abuse their power to rape and sexually abuse Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in their custody. With the intent to humiliate...

'As a member of the United Nations, the FRY is obliged to surrender Slobodan Milosevic and all other people indicted by the Tribunal to its custody', the organization stressed. On Wednesday 28...

'If the rule of law, the protection of human rights, and justice for victims and survivors of the recent spate of violence are to be ensured, the Tanzanian Government must establish and explain what...

Fiji's Interim Prime Minister, in a first reaction to the judgment which ruled that the government which took over after the May coup was illegal, has suggested that a different 'standard of human...

'The USA is engaged in a cruel, brutalizing, unreliable, unnecessary and hugely expensive activity for no measurable gain,' Amnesty International said. 'The fact that it is violating human rights...

The official Xinhua news agency reported that the right to form or join trade unions of one's choice would be subject to existing Chinese labour laws. 'The spotlight must now be on the impact of the...