Press Releases
Amnesty International said: 'Human rights abuses continue to take place on a daily basis in Chechnya. 'The Commission's lack of action on this situation is a blatant disregard of the suffering of the...
At least three people were killed and 12 injured, including two Children's rights, during an incident yesterday in which US forces exchanged gunfire during a demonstration near the governor's building...
At least three people were killed and 12 injured, including two Children's rights, during an incident yesterday in which US forces exchanged gunfire during a demonstration near the governor's building...
The human rights organisation, which has this week issued an 'Urgent Action' alert on the risk to ethnic minority and asylum-seeker groups in Russia, is concerned that - as in previous years - these...
As police forces in London, North Wales, Thames Valley, Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire begin participation in new taser trials, Amnesty International says that these controversial weapons have not...
'The executions are extremely worrying - not only because they signal the end of Cuba's widely-heralded de facto moratorium on executions, but because the men were given a summary trial, and their...
The organisation underlined the need to ensure justice for the victims of decades of human rights abuses by the Iraqi authorities and violations of international law during the recent conflict....
Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'These are extraordinary times, with reportedly many hospitals shut in Baghdad because of looting, and many of the civilian population in fear of...
The parade, comprising hundreds of activists from Amnesty International UK's national conference currently being held at Queen's University, as well as local ethnic minority and refugee groups and...
These annual figures, published as Death sentences and executions in 2002, show that in 2002 at least 1,526 people were executed in 31 countries - compared with over 3,048 people executed in 31...