Press Releases

'When in the face of massive intimidation, the East Timorese turned out to vote for independence, they demonstrated their determination to claim their human rights and decide their own destiny - they...

The organisation pledges to continue its international campaign for the immediate and unconditional release of the two peasant environmentalists. 'This case has once again exposed severe deficiencies...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'Today's draft bill represents a major step forwards in the search for global justice. The UK Government should be congratulated on its commitment to...

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...

The arrest fits into a pattern of arrests of journalists and human rights defenders in Liberia on politically-motivated charges. Mark Lattimer, Amnesty International UK Communications Director, said:...

'The civilian population is once again being used as an expendable political bargaining tool,' said the human rights organisation, after its latest mission to Burundi. In a continuing escalation of...

Amnesty International has long campaigned for the creation of such a court because it will end the effective immunity from prosecution currently enjoyed by people alleged to have committed torture...

The organisation expressed concern about the safety of Mrs. Dahlia Allen, attorney representing some twenty inmates at the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre, Spanish Town, who have allegedly...

'If she is convicted she would be considered to be a prisoner of conscience.' Nadire Mater will stand trial on 24 August and could be sentenced to several years in prison. Her publisher Semih Sökmen...

On Friday 18 August Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj accused the organisation of being involved in a 'political act to destabilise' Caribbean countries and of making 'unfounded and mischievous'...