Press Releases

The human rights organisation, which on Thursday 13 March is laying out specific recommendations in Geneva ahead of the Commission's Monday 17 March opening, is calling on the UN to help strengthen...

The 47-page report, launched today in Kabul, details widespread instances of torture, arbitrary detention and extortion by police officers - including the use of electric shocks, and severe and...

The human rights organisation is calling for the detainees to be given the right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention. Amnesty International said: 'It is a basic principle of international...

The public call for a prompt and impartial investigation comes as the Spanish government announced legal action against four directors of the Euskaldunon Egunkaria newspaper for 'falsely' accusing...

'The Sudanese government's imposition of 'red lines' prohibiting the reporting of politically sensitive issues is a clear violation of the internationally recognised right to freedom of opinion and...

Speaking after an audience with His Majesty King Abdullah bin Hussein, Ms Khan welcomed his call for greater attention to be given to the humanitarian situation inside Iraq in case of war. King...

Supporters and officials of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), the independent media, church leaders and human rights defenders continue to be subjected to harassment, arbitrary...

Dr Pradit Chareonthaitawee has received death threats this week from an anonymous telephone caller to his private residence and was told by the caller to stop talking to the United Nations (UN) or he...

With recent press reports of alleged deaths in custody after torture and beatings at the US airbase at Bagram, of a Spanish newspaper editor being tortured in Spain and a senior German police officer...

The organisation also called on the Iraqi government and the Kurdish authorities controlling parts of northern Iraq to provide the monitors with all the necessary access and cooperation. 'Whatever the...