Press releases in 2010

Amnesty International has condemned a 15-year prison sentence reportedly imposed on a Uighur journalist who warned the Chinese authorities about potential ethnic violence in Xinjiang province on the...

Amnesty International is urging parliament to reject a government proposal that would hamper arrest warrants being issued for suspected war criminals and torturers visiting the UK, warning that it...

The Jammu and Kashmir state government must immediately end the preventive detention of the leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Amnesty International said today. Mian Abdul...

As Gambia celebrates ‘Freedom Day’ today (22 July), Amnesty International is calling on the Gambian authorities to release journalist Ebrima Manneh. Ebrima Manneh was arrested in July 2006 by...

Amnesty International welcomes the announcement made by the Home Secretary and Minister for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Equality, Theresa May MP, to further extend...

Amnesty International has urged the Kenyan authorities to investigate the death of a market trader, reportedly shot dead by police during a protest against forced evictions in a Nairobi settlement...

Amnesty International has called on the Chadian authorities to arrest wanted Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and surrender him to the International Criminal Court, after it was reported that he...

Amnesty International has warned that draft legislative amendments scheduled to be discussed by the Turkish Parliament tomorrow would not, on their own, prevent violations of the rights of Children's...

Torture, unlawful killings and sexual assault regularly committed by Security Service agents – new Amnesty report Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out a brutal...

Amnesty International is calling on the Singapore authorities to immediately release British author Alan Shadrake, who was arrested for criminal defamation yesterday after he published a book critical...