Press Releases
In response to the announcement today (Wednesday 25th March), by NIO Minister Paul Goggins, Chair of the Organised Crime Task Force, that comprehensive care and support services will be available for...
* 2,390 executions worldwide in 2008 - 72% per cent in China alone * Japan executed highest number for over 30 years * Belarus is ‘last executioner in Europe’ Amnesty International today revealed that...
Second minor to die after being shocked by a Taser this year The death of a 15-year-old boy in Michigan, USA after he was shocked with a Taser gun reinforces the need for greater caution to be applied...
Amnesty International has called on Northern Ireland to help the United States in their stated aim of closing Guantanámo Bay by accepting prisoners who have been cleared for release. This would be...
As Pope Benedict XVI visited Angola today, Amnesty International urged him to use his influence with the country’s authorities to end the threat of forced evictions and fully compensate those that...
Amnesty International is urging Pope Benedict XVI to express the importance of eradicating discrimination based on sexual orientation, when he meets with members of the Special Council for Africa of...
Ten years after the war in Kosovo the majority of those responsible for the enforced disappearance and abduction of ethnic Albanians and Serbs have still not faced justice, Amnesty International said...
Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1,000 people in Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by ‘witch doctors’, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic...
Amnesty International today reacted to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s written statement on the treatment of detainees. Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim Hancock said: “While it’s welcome...
Amnesty expressed disappointment at the decision in Dubai today (16 March) to reject the appeal of Marnie Pearce, a British woman jailed for adultery. Ms Pearce will now serve out the remainder of her...