Press Releases

'Police and justice officials now require support if they are to fully investigate the claims against Amio Metayer and determine the truthfulness of the allegations against him,' the organisation said...

The USA is seeking to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, which is the multilateral treaty that established the court, through a new Security Council resolution. Amnesty...

According to the human rights organisation, the war crimes committed in Srebrenica will remain an open wound as long as the authorities - notably those of the Republika Srpska - fail to initiate...

The report 'Without distinction: Attacks on civilians by Palestinian armed groups' is the seventh major report on the human rights situation in the region published by the organization since the...

'Once again the country's authorities have allowed an important opportunity to combat long-standing human rights abuse, organised crime, corruption and impunity to be overridden by political...

In an open letter to India's Law Minister, Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan expressed concern that pre-trial proceedings appear to have been flawed. 'The scheduling of hearings of...

Amnesty International is urgently seeking answers as to whether it is the official policy of the state to regard human rights groups as sanctioning criminality, following comments by the Head of the...

Zahid Mahmood Akhtar, 48, was stoned to death by hundreds of villagers after the cleric used a loud hailer to issue a fatwa, a religious decree, ordering his execution. The mentally disturbed man had...

In a report - Policing to protect human rights - released today, Amnesty International describes how police inflict torture and ill-treat criminal suspects and political activists in the majority of...

Amnesty International is calling for a specific examination of reports that some inmate witnesses to the attack on Boggess suffered retaliation or were threatened by guards. The allegations include...