Press releases in 2009

Amnesty International today (16 April) expressed concern for the safety of the director of a Darfur torture treatment centre, following his recent arrest by National Intelligence and Security Services...

‘A national disgrace’ – says Amnesty International Twenty five years after the 1984 massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere immediately after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira...

Amnesty International has deplored the execution of nine people yesterday in Sudan, saying that the nine men may have been innocent. There are concerns that the nine hanged men were convicted of the...

* Detainees held without charge or trial for almost a decade * Improving Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights blighted by ‘honour killings’ and forced marriage Security...

Amnesty International today welcomed China’s recently-released National Human Rights Action Plan. Its publication signals the importance that the Chinese authorities place on the protection of human...

Two Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights activists in Nepal have now been murdered since the new government came to power, said Amnesty International today (10 April)...

Following the decision taken by the High Court not to extradite four Rwandan men suspected of genocide and other crimes under international law in Rwanda, Campaigns Director of Amnesty International...

Racist abuse and ill-treatment by the Austrian police, together with wider discrimination against ethnic minorities and migrants in Austria’s criminal justice system, are exposed in a new Amnesty...

Civil society activists should not be held responsible for the rioting that took place the day after a peaceful youth protest action on 6 April in the Moldovan capital of Chisinau, Amnesty...

Amnesty International has condemned a decision by a court in Lhasa to hand down death sentences to two Tibetans, Losang Gyaltse and Loyar, accused of starting fatal fires in Lhasa during protests in...