Press releases in 2002

Nine officers accompanied Semira Adamu onto the plane, including three officers to act as escorts during the flight and an officer who videoed the operation. After being seated and bound hand and foot...

On the basis of previous experience in Zimbabwe, the organisation is concerned that there is a risk of attacks on perceived supporters of the opposition and of violence around any protests about the...

Detainee held at the Metropolitan Detention Centre, New York, for an immigration violation. In a new 40-page report released today, Amnesty International shows that a significant number of people...

'Human rights are being undermined in the post-11 September security overdrive and the Commission has to rise to the challenge of protecting the rights of all independently of political interests. If...

Amnesty International has consistently demanded justice for serious crimes, including crimes against humanity, committed by Indonesian security forces and pro-Indonesian militia in East Timor during...

'Since Digna Ochoa's death, leaks by the PGJDF to the media appearing to give greater weight to a non-political motive for the crime, have consistently undermined the credibility of the investigation'...

The first case involves Tawfiq al-Hindi, a leading member of the unauthorized Lebanese Forces party and Antoine Bassil, Elie Kerouz, and Salman Samaha as well as others tried in absentia, as co...

'The Dialogue provides an opportunity not only to end the fighting in the DRC but also to set up a framework in which the rule of law can be established and in which human rights may be protected,' it...

The organisation has received information of a pattern of mass arbitrary detention of hundreds of polling agents belonging to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC). Those arrested also...

Amnesty International UK said: 'The clemency board's decision was a travesty of justice. Even those that support the death penalty would concede that executing a brain-damaged man whose trial was...