Press Releases
Reverend Pham Ngoc Lien (Tri), of the Congregation of the Mother Coredemptrix (CMC), and Le Thi Hong Lien, a young member of the Mennonite Christian Church, were released on 28 April 2005, under a...
In a new report, Zimbabwe: Human Rights Defenders Under Siege , Amnesty International catalogues the misuse of state power against those who campaign to protect human rights. These include: the...
After the screening there will be a special panel event comprising: Mohammad Bakri, distinguished Palestinian actor and director who plays the film's lead character Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Palestinian...
The three organisations pointed out that the lifting of the State of Emergency occurred almost simultaneously with the publication of an order by the Kathmandu District Authority against public...
On 18 April 2005 the Law Lords agreed to allow the above-mentioned coalition to intervene in the forthcoming appeal before their Lordships arising from an August 2004 ruling of the Court of Appeal of...
The Russian Federation, Belarus and Turkey are among the countries in Europe and Central Asia with the poorest record of government harassment and persecution of people for peacefully exercising these...
According to a recent Agence France Presse report, the sentences were imposed after the "gay wedding" took place in Jeddah in March. The men could be flogged at any time. Amnesty International...
Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan said: "People around the world will be recalling the horrific images they saw a year ago and wondering what happened to those prisoners. Did they...
Among those to be released are Reverend Pham Ngoc Lien, a 63-year-old member of the Catholic Congregation of the Mother Co-Redemptrix (CMC), who has spent the last 18 years in prison, and Le Thi Hong...
Amina Ali Abdulatif only escaped the firing squad in 2002 because the executioners noticed she was pregnant, according to reports from her lawyer. She was reportedly raped by one of the guards at al...