Press Releases
Zahid Mahmood Akhtar, 48, was stoned to death by hundreds of villagers after the cleric used a loud hailer to issue a fatwa, a religious decree, ordering his execution. The mentally disturbed man had...
In a report - Policing to protect human rights - released today, Amnesty International describes how police inflict torture and ill-treat criminal suspects and political activists in the majority of...
Amnesty International is calling for a specific examination of reports that some inmate witnesses to the attack on Boggess suffered retaliation or were threatened by guards. The allegations include...
Years of killing, violence and corruption attributed to the police organisation Scuderie Detetive le Cocq (SDLC), and to powerful economic and political groups in the state, have long gone unpunished...
For the second time in two weeks, police in Algiers today violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration by relatives of the 'disappeared'. The gathering was held outside Algeria's official human rights...
An 18-year-old woman from Meerwala in Punjab province, was sentenced to being raped in 'punishment' for her 12-year-old brother's alleged 'illicit affair' with a girl from a tribe considered 'higher'...
'It is just two weeks since the US Supreme Court ruled that the execution of people with mental retardation violates contemporary standards of decency,' Amnesty International said. 'Texas has...
The resolution of the Supreme Court states that the ruling is not related to Augusto Pinochet's guilt or innocence and acknowledges the gravity of the crimes which are the subject of the investigation...
Amnesty International is extremely concerned at reports that the four men - Maajid Nawaz, Ian Malcolm Nisbett, Reza Pankhurst and Hassan Rizfi, who were arrested on 1 April 2002 in Cairo and held for...
'The bombing of the village wedding ceremony which killed and injured scores of civilians adds to the mounting civilian death toll caused by the US-led coalition bombing since it began nine months ago...