Press Releases

The long overdue move to update British arms controls dating back to the beginning of the Second World War follows a change in the historic reluctance of the Department of Trade and Industry to impose...

Amnesty International Secretary General, Pierre Sané, raises a number of specific concerns in the open letter, notably the practice of torture which is 'still widespread in Turkey.' He goes on to...

In light of the increasingly grave human rights situation in Haiti, Amnesty International is deeply concerned by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's recommendation to discontinue the International...

'The discovery of this mass grave heightens the fears about the fate of large numbers of people who have ' disappeared ' during the last eight months after being detained by security forces,' Amnesty...

'Any moves by the security forces to use excessive force, including bullets and beatings, to break up protests tomorrow risks inflaming an already tense situation,' Amnesty International said....

'Prisoners in Japan are executed at a moment's notice, and are not even allowed to say goodbye to their families. It is an affront to the dignity of the human being. The death penalty must be...

He was initially sentenced to death by Fuzhou City Intermediate People's Court on 7 September 1990 after the case had reportedly been returned to investigators several times due to insufficient...

Amnesty International is concerned about reports that solitary confinement and small group isolation are being practised in Kartal Special Type Prisons. The organisation believes that these regimes...

The human rights organisation welcomed today's publication of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on the Government's policies towards China. Mark Lattimer, Communications Director of Amnesty...

Different rallies were held by both opposition and ruling party members of the Parliament and others who are critical of the government. On 26 November 2000, at the Tumsifu Centre in Kisumu, Western...