Press Releases

On 24 August 2000, a man who calls himself Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, alleged to have been responsible for torture in Argentina during the military government (1976-1983), was arrested in Cancun as he...

More than 5,000 Children's rights under the age of 18 have fought in Sierra Leone's internal armed conflict that began in 1991. They have been recruited by both the armed opposition and forces allied...

In 1999 at least 200 people were killed by security forces, mainly by members of the National Police, and fatal shootings have continued throughout the first months of 2000. Although many of the...

The raid was conducted on the evening of 29 August by masked law enforcement officers. Staff and visitors of the human rights organisation were ordered at gunpoint to lie face-down on the floor. Some...

After a decline over the past three years, there appears to be a steady increase in the number of 'disappearances' with dozens being reported in the Jammu and Kashmir press so far this year. Since...

In an unprecedented decision, on 19 August the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District unanimously passed an addition to the Penal Code allowing sentences of between 15 and 40 years in prison for...

Amnesty International believes that those arrested in Baroda and other parts of Gujarat in the past 48 hours have been detained solely on the grounds that they are planning to exercise their right to...

However, Amnesty International is still concerned about these latest attacks on freedom of the news media in Liberia. The human rights group warned that human rights defenders and journalists in the...

Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Yeni Musavat, was arrested on 22 August 2000 at his home in Baku after police claimed to have found an illegally-held 'Makarov' pistol in the apartment...

On 16 August 2000 Anthony Kofi Mensah Djentuh, aged 58, a former senior civil servant, and his wife Maria O'Sullivan-Djentuh, aged 49, a businesswoman, were convicted by a Circuit Tribunal in Accra...