Amnesty International UK
Log in

Press releases in 2006

China: Torture leaves freed Tiananmen dissident mentally ill

After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Time to end threats against human rights defenders

Amnesty International today called on the DRC government to take concrete steps to identify and bring to justice individuals, including state officials, responsible for threatening Congolese human...

Sex trafficking: Amnesty welcomes Operation Pentameter but calls for protection for trafficking victims

In response to the launch today (21 February) of the new anti-sex trafficking drive Operation Pentameter, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Amnesty welcomes Operation Pentameter and...

China: Amnesty International fears for missing hunger-strike activists

Several Chinese activists who have supported or participated in a series of protest hunger-strikes since 4 February have been arrested or gone missing. Amnesty International calls on the authorities...

Amnesty supports The Exonerated play

Amnesty International UK is supporting the award-winning play The Exonerated , as it begins a 16-week run at the Riverside Studios theatre in London. The Exonerated , running from 21 February to 11...

Guantánamo: UN report call for closure should be acted on

Responding to the publication today of a United Nations report on the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International echoed the UN’s call for the camp to be closed down. Amnesty...

Colombia: Electoral campaign must not be a campaign of intimidation

Impunity and attacks on freedom of expression are threatening the upcoming Congressional and Presidential elections in Colombia, says Amnesty International, in the run-up to a visit by the Andean...

Iraq: Abu Ghraib images: Must be a full investigation

Responding to new broadcast images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail in 2003, Amnesty International today called for a full investigation, extending beyond the Baghdad...

Sudan: Students beaten, detained and reportedly tortured in 'ghost houses'

Amnesty International has learned that on Saturday 11 February 2006 at approximately 12pm local time, armed police and security forces arrived in 15 cars at Juba University in Bahri, Khartoum at the...

NI: As campaigners demand progress, Minister Hanson tells of new round of political party meetings on Bill of Rights

NIO Minister David Hanson has told campaigners that he is to meet soon with Northern Ireland’s main political parties in an effort to move forward on establishing a Bill of Rights. The news came this...