Press Releases
The human rights organisation has written to the Prime Minister, outlining its concern that all Guantánamo Bay detainees are either charged with recognisable criminal offences or released, that legal...
The report, Justice only in heaven: the death penalty in Uzbekistan , shows that the death penalty is secretly carried out in scores of cases every year despite the fact that torture of criminal...
Becky Hess, Amnesty International UK Russia Campaign Manager, said: 'The widespread use of torture and ill-treatment by the Russian authorities, as documented by Amnesty International and other human...
Amnesty International published a report today (12 November 2003) calling on the Angolan government to put an immediate moratorium on the mass forced evictions which have seen more than 5,000 houses...
The human rights organisation's report Bosnia-Herzegovina: Shelving Justice emphasises that the International Criminal Tribunal (the Tribunal) has proceedings completed or ongoing for only about 90...
In the light of the serious human rights abuses outlined in its new report China: Continuing abuses under a new leadership the human rights organisation is calling on Mr Prescott to use the visit as...
Speaking from Brazil during her first visit to the country, Ms Khan today (10 November 2003) launched the report Essential actors of our time: Human Rights defenders in the Americas . The report...
Most of those imprisoned have been held incommunicado for days, if not weeks or months, and there is strong evidence that many have been tortured in custody. A twenty-year old woman, who cannot be...
While the Russian government attempts to portray the recent presidential elections in Chechnya as a step towards stabilisation, Amnesty International has received credible reports, including in...
Amnesty International UK Director, Kate Allen, said: 'The Thai authorities must take immediate action and set up an independent investigation into the 'war on drugs' deaths. They must send a clear...