Press releases in 2001

'This decision re-affirms the principle of universal jurisdiction, contributing to efforts all over the world to bring to justice those responsible for serious human rights violations,' Amnesty...

While having no information on the guilt or innocence of the three men, identified respectively as Alexander Mitchell, William Sampson and Raaf Schifte, Amnesty International is concerned that the men...

Amnesty International has collaborated fully with the investigation from the beginning and has consistently urged the Brazilian authorities to conduct exhaustive investigations into the threats and...

Joëlle Aubron, Nathalie Ménigon, Jean-Marc Rouillan and Georges Cipriani were arrested in February 1987 and sentenced in 1994 to multiple terms of life imprisonment for politically-motivated acts of...

The manifesto produced by Amnesty International with the support of over 12 other Ugandan nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), calls for ensuring that every Ugandan has the right to live in a society...

Condemnation from the human rights organisation followed the announcement earlier this month of pardons for 11 National Police officers and three Civil Guards who had been convicted of committing...

At least 37 people have reportedly been killed, including six police officers, and an unknown number injured when police used gas and live bullets to break-up demonstrations on the islands of Unguja...

The signatories to the letter accuse the Swiss authorities of transforming the ski resort of Davos into a 'fortress' and of curtailing 'the right of assembly and free speech.' The organisations state...

Pierre Sané, who is representing Amnesty International in Davos, said today: 'Intimidation cannot be tolerated. People must be allowed to express their opinions, no matter what those opinions are...

The Ankara headquarters of IHD was raided this morning by security police who confiscated all five of the computer hard-disks on which the Association stores information. Documents were also removed...