Press Releases

Years of killing, violence and corruption attributed to the police organisation Scuderie Detetive le Cocq (SDLC), and to powerful economic and political groups in the state, have long gone unpunished...

For the second time in two weeks, police in Algiers today violently dispersed a peaceful demonstration by relatives of the 'disappeared'. The gathering was held outside Algeria's official human rights...

An 18-year-old woman from Meerwala in Punjab province, was sentenced to being raped in 'punishment' for her 12-year-old brother's alleged 'illicit affair' with a girl from a tribe considered 'higher'...

'It is just two weeks since the US Supreme Court ruled that the execution of people with mental retardation violates contemporary standards of decency,' Amnesty International said. 'Texas has...

The resolution of the Supreme Court states that the ruling is not related to Augusto Pinochet's guilt or innocence and acknowledges the gravity of the crimes which are the subject of the investigation...

Amnesty International is extremely concerned at reports that the four men - Maajid Nawaz, Ian Malcolm Nisbett, Reza Pankhurst and Hassan Rizfi, who were arrested on 1 April 2002 in Cairo and held for...

'The bombing of the village wedding ceremony which killed and injured scores of civilians adds to the mounting civilian death toll caused by the US-led coalition bombing since it began nine months ago...

At the Security Council on 30 June, the USA vetoed the extension of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMBIH) as it did not get support for such immunity. It then agreed to a 72...

'We welcomed President Mubarak's earlier annulment of the verdict, leading to the release of 21 prisoners of conscience. However, we are clearly concerned at the decision of the Egyptian authorities...

In spite of the government publically admitting their detention, all key state security agencies have denied that the suspects are in their custody. Efforts by the local human rights and legal...