Press Releases

Speedy deployment of additional UN peace-keeping forces is necessary to provide protection. In addition, the perpetrators of these abuses must be made to understand that they will be held accountable...

Amnesty International said: 'Our concerns in Burma are wide-ranging. We are planning to discuss the human rights situation with the government, including the justice system, political imprisonment and...

'The US government should clarify whether it has officially permitted house demolitions as a form of collective punishment or deterrence,' said Amnesty International in a letter sent to the US...

Amnesty International fears that the men are at risk of imminent flogging and that they have been sentenced for exercising their right to demonstrate peacefully and as such would be prisoners of...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'There have been reports that the special powers to 'stop and search' people without suspicion, let alone a reasonable one, granted to the police...

The human rights organisation has written to the Prime Minister, outlining its concern that all Guantánamo Bay detainees are either charged with recognisable criminal offences or released, that legal...

The report, Justice only in heaven: the death penalty in Uzbekistan , shows that the death penalty is secretly carried out in scores of cases every year despite the fact that torture of criminal...

Becky Hess, Amnesty International UK Russia Campaign Manager, said: 'The widespread use of torture and ill-treatment by the Russian authorities, as documented by Amnesty International and other human...

Amnesty International published a report today (12 November 2003) calling on the Angolan government to put an immediate moratorium on the mass forced evictions which have seen more than 5,000 houses...

The human rights organisation's report Bosnia-Herzegovina: Shelving Justice emphasises that the International Criminal Tribunal (the Tribunal) has proceedings completed or ongoing for only about 90...