Press releases in 2002

As members of the Moroccan Human Rights Association, the Moroccan Human Rights Organisation and the Forum for Truth and Justice travel to Paris in a caravan of remembrance to highlight the need for...

The organisation considers the five Lao students to be prisoners of conscience, detained solely because of non-violent expression of their political beliefs. Amnesty International fears for their...

Amnesty International considers Albert Mukong to be a prisoner of conscience. 'Albert Mukong is being held solely for speaking out about the right to self-determination of the Anglophone provinces and...

'Hostage-taking is simply unacceptable in any circumstances. People's lives are put at risk and their rights simply ignored. We are calling on those responsible to release the hostages immediately...

'The government must bring to justice any army or police personnel involved in the torture of detainees, and clarify the legal status of the army's involvement in arrests of civilians', said Amnesty...

The trial of 29-year-old Ali-Salem Tamek comes at a time when an alarming number of Sahrawi (Western Saharan) civil society activists, many of whom are perceived to have pro-independence tendencies...

'Attacks on civilians are unjustifiable,' the organisation said today. 'We reiterate our call on the leaders of all Palestinian armed groups to end attacks on civilians immediately.' Background...

'There is effectively a state of anarchy reigning in the diamond fields of Mbuji-Mayi,' the organisation said, as it launched a new report, entitled Democratic Republic of Congo: Making a Killing...

Every year hundreds of thousands of people suffer human rights violations because there are too few legal safeguards to protect them and no independent bodies to prevent abuses. The judiciary lacks...

On 20 October the Revolutionary Command Council, the highest executive body in Iraq, issued a decree signed by President Saddam Hussain ordering a general amnesty for all political prisoners within 48...