Press Releases
Richard Bunting, Communications Director at Amnesty International UK, said, 'The police operate in an atmosphere of impunity and there is no indication that the violations committed by state agents...
Haytham Na'al was among a group of ACO members sentenced to long prison terms or the death penalty after unfair trials before the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC). He was reportedly tortured and...
The organisation noted the unprecedented international concern over the failure of Texas authorities to inform Suárez upon arrest in 1988 of his right to consular notification, as required under the...
'Whipping someone with a cane is cruel, inhuman and degrading. International standards make clear that such treatment constitutes torture. Such a punishment should have no place in today's world,' the...
Nine people were injured - the majority with gunshot wounds - in violent disturbances in Caracas after the Supreme Court decided not to put on trial four military officers accused of orchestrating an...
Following her detention on 11 August 1999, Rebiya Kadeer was charged with 'providing secret information to foreigners'. She was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison in March 2000. Her only...
One mortar shell - fired from a considerable distance - exploded in the poor El Cartucho district of the capital, several blocks away from the parliament building, where the new President was being...
On Saturday 3 August, Amio Métayer escaped from prison along with an estimated 150 other inmates. During the wave of violence that surrounded the escape, one person was killed, and many buildings...
Mohamad Ezam Mohd Nor, youth leader of the opposition Keadilan* party, was already a prisoner of conscience, detained since April 2001 without charge under the Internal Security Act (ISA). He has now...
Between 28 and 29 July, seven MDC members were arrested allegedly for setting fire to three tractors at a government complex in Chipinge North. The seven accused, including the MDC vice-chairman for...