Press Releases
Guns and Policing: Standards to prevent misuse focuses on what governments should be doing to control the use of guns by their police forces. The report has been written by Amnesty International for...
A representative of the Centre for Legal Resources , a Romanian non-governmental organisation, visited the hospital on 20 February and established that 17 patients had died in 2004, apparently from...
The human rights organisation also warned that the UK was effectively giving a green light to torturers by potentially relying on evidence extracted under torture. Amnesty International UK Media...
Speaking after her visit yesterday (Thursday 19 February 2004) to the Mansfield Correctional Facility in Ohio, Kate Allen said: 'It was crucial for me to come to Ohio to see Kenny Richey and the state...
The whereabouts of the 28 are not known, but they are believed to be held in one of Eritrea's many secret detention centres. The Eritrean authorities have not publicly acknowledged the arrests or...
Over the last two days former paramilitary leader Louis Jodel Chamblain, convicted of involvement in the assassination of a prominent pro-democracy activist ten years ago, has led a group of former...
The governments of the UK and other EU members states, the US and Israel have objected to the ICJ hearing the case, claiming that the issue is 'political'. In a briefing issued today, Amnesty...
Mahasin Abaker was 14 years old and nine months pregnant when she was sentenced to 100 lashes at a court in Nyala, South Darfur on May 17 2003. Her final appeal was heard by the Supreme Court in...
Amnesty International said today: “At the best of times, the spectre of past violations continues to haunt Haiti. At this crucial stage, when the rule of law is so fragile, the last thing that the...
This is the first time that Amnesty International has documented evidence of the practice of “white torture” in Iran. Amir Abbas Fakhravar has been in prison for over a year. In January 2004, he was...