Press Releases

The human rights organisation urging the authorities to take immediate measures to guarantee Gong Shengliang's safety. Gong Shengliang, leader of the banned 'Huanan Church', was originally sentenced...

In the last few days, while representatives of the international community have been meeting in Akosombo, Ghana, to find a solution to Liberia's internal armed conflict, fighting between the armed...

For over a decade the Tunisian authorities have used 'security' as a pretext to curtail the political and civil rights of hundreds of political and other prisoners and the 40-page report, Tunisia: The...

Jose Padilla, a US citizen, has been held in solitary confinement on a naval base in Charleston, South Carolina, since being abruptly designated an 'enemy combatant' on 9 June 2002. He has been held...

The organisation has issued an urgent call on the Burma authorities to release immediately all those who have been detained for their peaceful political activities, and has demanded that the...

The Prosecutor's Office in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, halted criminal proceedings against the Montenegrin deputy state prosecutor and three other men for involvement in sex-slavery...

Ahead of tomorrow's (Thursday 5 June 2003) meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Ministers where the EU-US Agreements on Extradition and on Mutual Legal Assistance is due to be approved, Amnesty...

Amnesty International's appeal comes following a recent meeting between ministers from France, Germany and the UK, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to explore...

In a new 60-page report, 'Essential measures'? Human rights crackdown in the name of security , Amnesty International charts a pattern of arrests, summary and unfair trials, and long prison terms of...

The conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is perhaps the most horrifying example of the impact on human rights of wars fuelled by a scramble for resources and enabled by the easy flow...