Press releases in 2007

Amnesty International welcomed today’s decision taken by the Court of Appeal to overturn the Home Office’s plan to forcibly return three rejected Darfuri asylum seekers to the Sudanese capital...

Amnesty International today (4 April) called on the Chadian government to reverse its refusal to accept a United Nations force into its eastern region bordering Sudan, after at least 25 unarmed...

Amnesty International is concerned that activists from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) who will go on a job stay away action on 3 and 4 April 2007 are at risk of being beaten by police...

Father Nguyen Van Ly, a 60-year-old Catholic priest in View Nam who helped set up an internet petition calling for democratic change, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for “conducting...

New call for UK government to act for UK residents at Guantánamo Bay Responding to today’s news that Bisher al-Rawi, a UK resident from Kingston-on Thames, is set to be released from the US military...

Amnesty International today (29 March 2007) warned that Scottish airports are failing to take appropriate steps to ensure that so-called "torture flights" are unable to land on Scottish soil. The move...

Amnesty International expressed outrage at events today in Zimbabwe, including the arrest of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The organisation called for an end to the...

The Council voted yesterday (Tuesday) evening to endorse a policy drafted by Amnesty International to block any possible use of the Airport for so-called “torture flights”. The Council is instructing...

Reacting to the news that the UK Government is to sign up to the European Convention Against Trafficking today (23 March), Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “Amnesty...

Heavy fighting is currently taking place in Mogadishu as forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the large Ethiopian army force supporting it have been attacked by armed opposition...