Press Releases
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing which also injured 90 people, 64 of them civilians. The majority of the victims were members of the Tamil community who were gathered at a Buddhist...
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of anyone held for his or her race, ethnic background or political opinion. 'We appeal to the commanders of the security forces...
22 September 1999: Harry Stanley, a 46-year-old Scottish decorator, was shot dead by police after they received a phone call in which the caller mistakenly reported his accent as an Irish one, and the...
The Israeli government is failing to protect the human rights of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls who are trafficked from countries of the former Soviet Union to...
Amnesty International has always maintained that the viability of the peace agreement, signed in July 1999, was undermined from the outset by providing a blanket amnesty. The human rights organisation...
The human rights organisation called on President Mugabe, the government and the police authorities of Zimbabwe to ensure that this electoral process is peaceful. In the run-up to the elections...
Earlier this week the UN Committee against Torture criticized the USA about 'the number of cases of police ill-treatment of civilians...'. The misuse of pepper spray by US police was one of a number...
The first major human rights trial in Aceh ended today with guilty verdicts against 24 soldiers and one civilian implicated in the killings of Teungku Bantaqiah - a Muslim cleric and teacher - and...
The first major human rights trial in Aceh ended today with guilty verdicts against 24 soldiers and one civilian implicated in the killings of Teungku Bantaqiah - a Muslim cleric and teacher - and...
Amnesty International called on the new President to use his authority to instigate a process of swift and thorough legal reforms in order to bring Turkish law on freedom of expression into line with...