Press Releases

On 22 March 2001, Ibrahim al-Taj Hussain Zaydan, a Sudanese national in his early twenties and an asylum-seeker who had been registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Beirut...

A homophobic group in Ecuador has announced that in April it will embark upon a campaign of 'social cleansing', directed at the LGBT community which it refers to as 'human garbage'. 'These threats are...

In a report published today the organization is putting forward a series of recommendations to end the complete impunity which has so far shrouded those responsible for thousands of cases of torture...

In a statement issued at the end of an Amnesty International fact-finding mission to Guinea, the organization recommended that: 'The present UN force in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, or the proposed ECOWAS...

'Physical and psychological punishments against conscripts of all ages, resulting in both mental and physical harm, are commonplace in the Paraguayan armed forces and police ,' the organization said....

'Those who had authorised her execution failed to inform her family or lawyers of the execution date. The prison authorities refused access to her on the last day of her life. These acts of deception...

Following several recent reports of rape by security forces in Mannar, Batticaloa, Negombo and Jaffna, the organization reminded President Chandrika Kumaratunga that safeguards to protect Women's...

'Since the Forces nationales de libération (FNL), National Liberation Forces, attacked and occupied parts of the capital, Bujumbura, in late February and early March, there has been a noticeable...

Jean Dominique was shot dead on 3 April 2000 by unknown assailants who waited for him outside the courtyard of his radio station, Radio Haiti Inter. Station guard Jean Claude Louissaint was killed...

The pattern of 'disappearance', torture and extrajudicial and summary execution of detainees, and the use of unofficial and secret detention sites has been exhaustively documented by Russian and...