Press Releases
Amnesty International Director of Communications Mark Lattimer said: ' Torture is an abomination and no Government should accept it as part of normal police practice. Only by bringing the torturers to...
Several opposition politicians were arrested between 24 and 26 November 2000 in the capital, Bissau, accused of supporting the rebellion led by General Ansumane Mané, the former leader of the...
'Various measures have been proposed by United Nations bodies, as well as the United States, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to end the violence and human rights abuses that...
Although the authorities have said the bodies showed no signs of violence, the deaths on the night of 21-22 November occurred in suspicious circumstances. The Mozambican authorities have reportedly...
On 9 December 1996 Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman who does not speak Turkish, was detained on suspicion that she and her husband were affiliated with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). She was held in...
Sally Potter ('Orlando', 'The Tango Lesson') will personally introduce the film, a moving depiction of refugees uprooted in 1920s Soviet Union and the threats to minority groups posed by fascism in...
T. Puroshottam, Joint Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), was attacked by a group of unidentified men wielding knives when he went to a local shop to buy soap this...
The human rights organization considers this court ruling as a sign of increasing pressure on environmental activists in the Russian Federation. Grigory Pasko was arrested in 1997 for treason and...
Momcilo Trajkovic, who faces charges of war crimes against ethnic Albanians, will go on trial in the absence of a prosecutor from the international community. The presence of an international...
Amnesty International welcomed the encouraging statements made over the past year by the Algerian authorities at the highest level. These included the authorities' wish to deal with these outstanding...