Press Releases
'In what appears to have been the biggest crackdown in a decade, independent journalists, members of human rights groups, political activists and other perceived dissidents across the country have...
The call comes as Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for the Department of Trade and Industry, today goes in front of a parliamentary committee to defend the government's new controls on arms exports...
An Amnesty International spokesperson said: 'We have asked the UK and US governments to confirm that they would not use such indiscriminate weapons because of the threat they pose to civilians. Now we...
The organisation is working on the cases of three journalists who are currently being persecuted for their work: Firas Nassuh Salim Al-Majali in Qatar Clara Britos, editor of an Argentinean newspaper...
Amnesty International is concerned that emergency regulations introduced after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic on 12 March might give rise to human rights violations, particularly...
The execution, which is scheduled for 6pm evening (midnight GMT) on 3 April in Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, is prohibited by international law which forbids the use of the death penalty...
The organisation is particularly concerned by recent statements by Iraqi officials following the 29 March suicide bomb attack on an army checkpoint which killed four US Soldiers. Iraqi Vice President...
The human rights organisation is disappointed that, despite the military government's pledges to improve human rights in the country, the pace of releases of political prisoners has decreased and new...
Under provisions contained in the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act (2002), from 1 April 2003 the Home Secretary can deprive a person of citizenship on vague national interest grounds. Those...
Their long-running trial, which re-started yesterday, is taking place in an (Emergency) Supreme State Security Court in Cairo, an exceptional court that violates international fair trial standards...