Press Releases

President Bush should also insist that Uganda cease all forms of support to armed groups in eastern DRC known to have committed human rights abuses. The conflict in DRC - a conflict that has been, in...

'We have the names of a number of Lebanese political detainees who have been held in Syrian prisons for years mostly incommunicado, following their transfer from Lebanon to Syria by the Syrian...

The human rights organisation, conducting meetings this week with President Karzai, Afghan minister for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights's affairs and other officials and...

The organisation's report, on the anniversary of the incident, calls for an independent judicial enquiry to be set up with international support. No evidence was heard at the Inquiry from any of the...

Amnesty International said: 'Medina's murder was the first known murder of a journalist in modern Costa Rica, and it shocked that normally peaceful society. Now, two years later, the authorities'...

The warning came in response to yesterday's decision by President Bush to name six detainees under the Military Order he signed in November 2001. The human rights organisation believes that this is...

'The fact that so many rape claims over such a long period of time were neither investigated nor prosecuted shows a systemic failure of the UK army and may amount to institutional acquiescence which...

Despite significant progress the PNTL remains a fragile and underdeveloped institution which is not yet adequately trained, equipped, or sufficiently well-supported according to Amnesty International...

In a letter to Paul Bremer, the organisation also calls on the US to ensure that detainees are treated humanely and that excessive use of force is investigated, after one detainee was shot dead and...

Two of the four Lao nationals who were assisting them were also reported to have been given harsh prison terms today, one reportedly receiving a twenty-year prison sentence. After hearing the verdict...